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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick · 380 pages
Autonomous
Annalee Newitz · 304 pages
When anything can be owned, how can we be free Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can’t otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they becom
Foundation and Chaos
Greg Bear · 408 pages
Isaac Asimov's renowned Foundation trilogy pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern science fiction and shaped many of its best writers. With the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, the epic saga left unfinished by the Grand Master himself now continues with this second masterful volume. With Hari Seldon on trial for treason, the Galactic Empire's long-anticipated migration to
The Stories of Ibis
Hiroshi Yamamoto · 432 pages
In a world where humans are a minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis. She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity's fall. The stories that Ibis speaks of are the "seven novels" about the events surrounding the announcements of the development of artificial intelli
Foundation's Friends
Martin H. Greenberg · 464 pages
* Strip-Runner – novelette by Pamela Sargent * The Asenion Solution – short story by Robert Silverberg * Murder in the Urth Degree – short story by Edward Wellen * Trantor Falls – short story by Harry Turtledove * Dilemma – short story by Connie Willis * Maureen Birnbaum After Dark – short story by George Alec Effinger * Balance – short story by Mike Resnick * The Prese
Alex + Ada, Vol. 1
Sarah Vaughn · 128 pages
The Cyberiad
Stanislaw Lem · 295 pages
OMG I can't believe there's no description for this - but then I can because this book defies description. Stanislaw Lem is a genius and your minds will be expanded to bursting when you begin this journey into a world where machines are the dominant species. It is hugely entertaining, inventive, witty, and above all, laugh out loud funny. The book concerns two "constructors" - Trurl and Klaupaciou
Robot Uprisings
Daniel H. Wilson, John Joseph Adams · 476 pages
"As real robots creep into our lives, so does a sense of fear--we have all wondered what horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry. This anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the machines we live with. With contributions by Alan Dean Foster, Charles Yu, Hugh Howey, Daniel H. Wilson, Corey Doctorow, Ian McDonald, Ernie Cline, Jeff A
Alex + Ada, Vol. 2
Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn
Sea of Rust
C. Robert Cargill · 365 pages
"A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot western" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic. It's been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been
Mockingbird
Walter Tevis
Robopocalypse
Daniel H. Wilson · 347 pages
The Robot Chronicles
Hugh Howey, Deirdre Gould, A.K. Meek, Edward W. Robertson, Endi Webb, Matthew Mather, Samuel Peralta, Ann Christy, Nina Croft, W.J. Davies, Patrice Fitzgerald, Jason Gurley, David Simpson, David Adams · 398 pages
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers · 151 pages
The Holy Machine. Chris Beckett
Chris Beckett
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 008
Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki · 230 pages
"Atom is back, and the fate of the earth is in his hands! Now that Atom has all the answers to the unsolved mysteries around Pluto, Bora and more, he's prepared to put everything on the line. With the memory of his fallen brethren--Gesicht, Mont Blanc, North No. 2, Brando, Hercules and Epsilon--etched deeply into his heart, Atom is headed for one last battle to save the world!" -- from publisher's
The Medusa Chronicles
Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds · 416 pages
Inspired by Sir Arthur C. Clarke's award-winning novella A Meeting With Medusa, this is a novel of the unfolding rivalry between Mankind and Machines, spanning centuries and the spaces of the solar system and leading to a future neither could have envisaged.
The Positronic Man
Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg · 241 pages
Powerful and haunting, The Positronic Man is an unforgettable novel that redefines Isaac Asimov's and Robert Silverberg's place among the greatest science fiction authors of all time. In the twenty-first century the creation of the positronic brain leads to the development of robot laborers and revolutionizes life on Earth. But to the Martin family, their household robot NDR-113 is more than a tru
Echo of Worlds
M.R. Carey · 496 pages
The Compleat Bolo
Keith Laumer · 314 pages
Tin Stars
Jeff Lemire · 160 pages
Young Robot boy TIM-21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. Written by award-winning creator, Jeff Lemire, Descender is a rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey. Lemire pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling epic.
R.U.R.
Karel Capek · 352 pages
Chobits, Vol. 8
CLAMP · 129 pages
Hideki is a down-and-out slacker who is all alone, until he finds a persocon--a humanoid robot--in a garbage pile. He decides to take her home, after all, one man's trash is another man's treasure.