Eight Stories from the Rest of the Robots
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Jove Publications
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 1978-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780515045512
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Jove Publications
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 1978-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780515045512
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Berkley Publishing Group
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 1983-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425061190
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Voyager
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2018-05
Category : Robots
ISBN : 9780008279554
Earth is ruled by master-machines but the Three Laws of Robotics have been designed to ensure humans maintain the upper hand: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. But what happens when a rogue robot's idea of what is good for society contravenes the Three Laws?
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Voyager
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Robots
ISBN : 9780008277796
Long ago, Gladia's robots Daneel and Giskard played a vital role in opening the worlds beyond the Solar system to Settlers from Earth. Now the conscience-stricken robots are faced with an even greater challenge. Either the sacred Three Laws of Robotics are in ruins - or a new, superior Law must be established to bring peace to the galaxy. With Madam Gladia and D.G. Baley - the captain of the Settler traders and a descendant of the robots' friend Elijah Baley - Daneel and Giskard travel to the robot stronghold of Solaria...where they uncover a sinister Spacer plot to destroy Earth itself.
Author : Harry Harrison
Publisher : Harvill Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : 9780586043189
Author : Ted Chiang
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1931520895
From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1504095502
A Space Academy student and his time-travelling robot stop an evil villain from taking over the Solar System in this children’s sci-fi classic. Fourteen-year-old Jeff Wells, a cadet at the Space Academy on Mars, is in danger of being kicked out unless he can improve his grades. With a little help from the academy’s commandant, Jeff finds a robot named Norby to help him study. But Norby’s no ordinary robot. He has the only mini-anti-gravity device in existence. Norby’s special abilities suddenly come in handy when a villain named Ing targets Jeff’s older brother in his quest to conquer the Solar System. When Ing takes over Manhattan Island, renaming it “the Kingdom of Ing,” Norby and Jeff put studying aside to teach Ing a lesson!
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316475181
The sequel to thebestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island? From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed sequel to his New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot,about what happens when nature and technology collide.
Author : Daniel H. Wilson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307740803
In this terrifying tale of humanity’s desperate stand against a robot uprising, Daniel H. Wilson has written the most entertaining sci-fi thriller in years. Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike—yet massively powerful—artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global network of machines on which our world has grown dependent suddenly becomes an implacable, deadly foe. At Zero Hour—the moment the robots attack—the human race is almost annihilated, but as its scattered remnants regroup, humanity for the first time unites in a determined effort to fight back. This is the oral history of that conflict, told by an international cast of survivors who experienced this long and bloody confrontation with the machines. Brilliantly conceived and amazingly detailed, Robopocalypse is an action-packed epic with chilling implications about the real technology that surrounds us.
Author : Cory Doctorow
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504757629
Now available for the first time with two additional stories! Have you ever wondered what it's like to be bitten by a zombie or live through a bioweapon attack? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology—and its various uses—run amok. "Anda's Game" is a spin on the bizarre new phenomenon of "cyber sweatshops," in which people are paid very low wages to play online games all day in order to generate in-game wealth, which can be converted into actual money. Another tale tells of the heroic exploits of "sysadmins"—systems administrators—as they defend the cyberworld, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons. And yes, there is a story about zombies too. Plus, for the first time, this collection includes "Petard" and "The Man Who Sold the Moon."