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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAlex + Ada, Vol. 1
Sarah Vaughn Β· 128 pages
Chobits, Vol. 8
CLAMP Β· 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.
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 008
Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki Β· 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 Positronic Man
Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg Β· 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
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov Β· 218 pages
I, Robot is a fixup novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950 and were then compiled into a book for stand-alone publication by Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies. The stories are woven together by a fra
Mockingbird
Walter Tevis
Machine Moon
Jeff Lemire Β· 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.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick Β· 216 pages
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!
Robopocalypse
Daniel H. Wilson Β· 347 pages
The Holy Machine. Chris Beckett
Chris Beckett
R.U.R.
Karel Capek Β· 352 pages
The Medusa Chronicles
Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds Β· 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.
Autonomous
Annalee Newitz Β· 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 canβt 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
Artifice
Alex Woolfson
Back cover: "Deacon is a prototype android soldier so advanced he is referred to as an 'artificial person'. On his first extended mission, Deacon was ordered by his corporate masters to eliminate a team of scientists who knew too much--and he has failed spectacularly. Not only did he let one of his targets live, he attacked the team sent to retrieve him. Now the Corporation wants answers and they
The Surrogates
Robert Venditti Β· 158 pages
Rai, Volume 1: Welcome to New Japan
Matt Kindt Β· 112 pages
The year is 4001 A.D. - led by the artificial intelligence called "Father," the island nation of Japan has expanded out of the Paciο¬c and into geosynchronous orbit with the ravaged Earth below. With billions to feed and protect, it has fallen to one solitary guardian to enforce the law of Father's empire - the mysterious folk hero known as Rai. They say he can appear out of nowhere. They say he is
Foundation and Chaos
Greg Bear Β· 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
Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-machine Interface
Masamune Shirow Β· 312 pages
Metallic Love
Tanith Lee Β· 301 pages
Injection, Vol. 1
Warren Ellis
"Once upon a time, there were five crazy people and they poisoned the 21st century. Now they have to deal with the corrosion to try to save us all from a world becoming too weird to support human life. Injection... is science fiction, tales of horror, strange crime fiction, techno-thriller, and ghost story all at the same time. A serialized sequence of graphic novels about how loud and strange the
Brass Man
Neal Asher Β· 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
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks Β· 309 pages
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer, and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game ... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emp
Sea of Rust
C. Robert Cargill Β· 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
Kill Decision
Daniel Suarez Β· 451 pages
When the U.S. finds itself subjected to targeted drone assassinations, the race is on to find those responsible. But after the drones are discovered to be autonomous β programmed to strike without direct human control β the search for the perpetrators becomes infinitely more difficult. It's a discovery that heralds in a new era of cheap, anonymous war, where the kill decision has moved from man to