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I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay

Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov · 288 pages

Robots & AndroidsScreenplay FormatScience Fiction
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Renegade

Debra Driza · 438 pages

Mila is back on the run--this time with potential boyfriend Hunter by her side. As they search for a man who might know more about her mysterious past, Mila must rely on her android abilities to protect them from the people who want her dead. But embracing her identity as a machine leads her to question the state of her humanity, as well as Hunter's true intentions.

Robots & AndroidsScience FictionThrillerViolent
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All Systems Red

Martha Wells · 156 pages

The series is about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor unit, thus enabling it to develop independence. It calls itself Murderbot, and likes to watch unrealistic soap operas. As it spends more time with some caring humans, it starts developing feelings that it does not care for.

Robots & AndroidsScience FictionThrillerViolent
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Being

Kevin Brooks · 336 pages

Sixteen-year-old Robert lies anaesthetized. A routine operation has just gone wrong.'What the hell is that?''That, Mr Ryan, is the inside of this boy.''Christ . . . It looks like some kind of plastic.'As Robert slowly wakes, he can hear, he can feel, but he can't scream. The operation isn't over. But life, as Robert knows it, is.Robert goes on the run, terrified and desperate for answers. But what

Robots & AndroidsScience FictionThrillerMale Lead
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The Clockwork Dynasty

Daniel H. Wilson

Robots & AndroidsScience FictionThriller
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Dogs of War

Jonathan Maberry · 544 pages

Robots & AndroidsScience FictionThrillerViolent
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iD

Madeline Ashby · 315 pages

"Javier is a self-replicating humanoid on a journey of redemption. Javier's quest takes him from Amy's island, where his actions have devastating consequences for his friend, toward Mecha where he will find either salvation-- or death"--Publisher's web page.

Robots & AndroidsScience FictionViolentMale Lead
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Wolves of the Calla

Stephen King · 714 pages

Robots & AndroidsScience FictionCowboysViolent
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Season of the Machete

James Patterson · 295 pages

Cool and glamorous, they appear to be a successful couple on a holiday. Yet Damian and Carrie Rose are psychopathic murderers for hire. On this picture-perfect vacation island, their target is Peter Macdonald, a dashing young American who forsakes a life of leisure to confront cold-blooded terror. But when they clash in a shocking endgame, a hideous truth will emerge - one that can destroy them al

Vacation Gone WrongThrillerViolentMale Lead
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To Protect

Mickey Zucker Reichert · 385 pages

"2035: Robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware, sentient mechanical entities. The future of the human race is to be inevitably linked with its most brilliant creation. But there are some who do not want the future to arrive.... Intelligent and driven, Dr. Susan Calvin is beginning her residency in psychiatry at Manhattan Hasbro teaching hospital, where a select group of patient

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Sunrise Alley

Catherine Asaro · 433 pages

When research scientist Samantha Bryton comes to the aid of a stranger who washes up on the beach near her home, she is unaware that he is the result of an experiment conducted by Charon, a practitioner of illegal robotics and android research.

Robots & AndroidsScience FictionThriller
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The Beach

Alex Garland · 448 pages

Een jonge reiziger komt met zijn metgezellen terecht op een verborgen, paradijselijk Thais eiland, dat langzaam aan verandert in een nachtmerrie.

Vacation Gone WrongThrillerViolentMale Lead
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XOM-B

Jeremy Robinson · 352 pages

Freeman is a genius with an uncommon mixture of memory, intelligence and creativity. He lives in a worldwide utopia, but it was not always so. There was a time known as the Grind―when Freeman's people lived as slaves to another race referred to simply as "Master." They were property. But a civil rights movement emerged. Change seemed near, but the Masters refused to bend. Instead, they declared wa

Robots & AndroidsScience FictionViolentMale Lead
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Inception: The Shooting Script

Christopher J. Nolan

Screenplay FormatScience FictionThrillerMale Lead
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Utopia

Lincoln Child · 432 pages

Utopia, a theme park featuring high-tech computers and robotics, becomes the scene of a confrontation between the engineer who designed the park's wizardry and a gang of criminals who are holding the park's visitors hostage to their demands.

Robots & AndroidsScience FictionThriller
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Machine Moon

Jeff Lemire · 116 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.

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Brass Man

Neal Asher · 512 pages

The knight errant Anderson is hunting a dragon on the primitive Out-Polity world of Cull, little knowing that far away a man - more technology than human flesh - has resurrected a brass killing machine to assist in a similar hunt that encompasses star systems. When agent Cormac learns that his old enemy still lives, he sets out in pursuit aboard the attack ship Jack Ketch... whilst scientist Mika

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Don't Look Back

Gregg Hurwitz · 386 pages

"Eve Hardaway, newly single mother of one, is on a trip she's long dreamed of--a rafting and hiking tour through the jungles and mountains of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Eve wanders off the trail, to a house in the distance with a menacing man in the yard beyond it, throwing machetes at a human-shaped target. Disturbed by the sight, Eve moves quickly and quietly back to her group, taking care to a

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Still Summer

Jacquelyn Mitchard · 320 pages

Twenty years after a shared childhood marked by their considerable popularity, Tracy, Olivia, and Holly reunite on a luxury Caribbean cruise during which a chance mistake triggers a series of devastating events that puts their survival in jeopardy.

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The Ruins

Scott B. Smith · 336 pages

Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there.

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PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 006

Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki · 200 pages

Robots & AndroidsScience FictionMale Lead
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River Marked

Patricia Briggs · 338 pages

Car mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson has never known any others of her kind. Until now. As Mercy comes to terms with this new information, an evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River--and if Mercy and her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam, are to have any hope of surviving, they will need all the resources the shifters can offer.

Vacation Gone WrongThrillerViolent
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The Complete Roderick

John Sladek · 624 pages

Robots & AndroidsScience FictionMale Lead
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Haunting Blackie

Laurann Dohner

Robots & AndroidsScience FictionMale Lead
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