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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 · back to the book
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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
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
The Compleat Bolo
Keith Laumer · 314 pages
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
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
Isaac Asimov · 211 pages
The Prime of Life [poem] Feminine Intuition Waterclap That Thou Art Mindful of Him Stranger in Paradise The Life and Times of Multivac The Winnowing The Bicentennial Man Marching In Old-Fashioned The Tercentenary Incident Birth of a Notion
Berserker Base
Poul Anderson, Larry Niven · 316 pages
The A.I. Chronicles
Samuel Peralta, David Simpson, Chrystalla Thoma, Peter Cawdron, Patrice Fitzgerald, Susan Kaye Quinn, Julie Czerneda, Alex Albrinck, Sam Best, Angela Cavanaugh, E.E. Giorgi, A.K. Meek, Logan Thomas Snyder, Pavarti K. Tyler · 428 pages
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Even today, machines that mimic human thinking surround us. As the intellectual feats of computing machines grow more and more astounding, will there be a day when their apparent intelligence approaches, or even surpasses, that of human beings? And what if these machines then become conscious, self-aware? In this latest title in the acclaimed Future Chronicles ser
Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
M.T. Anderson, Holly Black, Libba Bray, Shawn Cheng, Cassandra Clare, Cory Doctorow, Dylan Horrocks, Kathleen Jennings, Elizabeth Knox, Garth Nix, Delia Sherman, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Christopher Rowe · 420 pages
A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 3: Second Variety
Philip K. Dick · 432 pages
Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time
Brian W. Aldiss · 232 pages
Tales of the Bounty Hunters
Kevin J. Anderson · 368 pages
In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters—amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe…for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successful—and feared—hun
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul Di Filippo, Elizabeth Bear, David Marusek, Mary Rosenblum, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Walter Jon Williams, Christopher Rowe · 424 pages
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
Foundation's Triumph
David Brin · 364 pages
The Second Foundation Trilogy begins with Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear, telling the origins of Hari Seldon, the Foundation's creator. Gregory Bear's Foundation and Chaos relates the epic tale of Seldon's downfall and the first stirrings of robotic rebellion. Now, in David Brin's Foundation's Triumph, Seldon is about to escape exile and risk everything for one final quest -- the outcome of w
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume 1
Robert Silverberg · 558 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
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The Humanoids
Jack Williamson · 239 pages
From back cover of Avon Books paperback April 1980: STRANGE BENEFACTORS From far beyond Earth came a generation of benevolent robots whose sole purpose was to serve man by ending wars and easing his bodily and spiritual ills. Dr. Clay Forester, brilliant scientist and citizen of the distant future, had been recruited by a band of dissidents to stop the fledgling "brave new world." But why
Exiles
Mason Coile · 225 pages
A New York Times Book Review Favorite Book of 2025 A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of William—this time set on a remote outpost on Mars. The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray—the machines have formed alliances, chosen their own names, and picked up some disturbing belie