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"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza...

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 assignmet--find them and then, "retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

The year is 2048. Technology has evolved by quantum leaps. The L.A. police department now teams manmade robots with human officers.

"Ever since Goku became Earth's greatest hero and gathered the seven Dragon Balls to defeat the evil Boo, his life on Earth has grown a little dull. But new threats loom overhead, and Goku and his friends will have to defend the planet once again in this continuation of Akira Toriyama's best-selling series, Dragon Ball! Goku finally manages to activate the complete version of Ultra Instinct, and he's got Moro on the ropes. However, Moro has one more...

A corporate troubleshooter is sent to a remote, top-secret location, where she is to investigate and evaluate a terrifying accident. She learns the event was triggered by a seemingly innocent 'human', who presents a mystery of both infinite promise and incalculable danger.

"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....

In the year 2019, lifelike robots clash with their human makers in an effort to alter the destiny for which they have been programmed.

Meet Kelly. Twenty-nine, go-getter, a brilliant robotics engineer, and perpetually single. When her younger sister's wedding looms and her attempts to find a date become increasingly cringeworthy, Kelly does the only logical thing: she builds her own boyfriend. Kelly is twenty-nine, a go-getter, a brilliant robotics engineer, and perpetually single. When her younger sister's wedding looms and her attempts to find a date become increasingly cringeworthy,...

Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world́s largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the companýs reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world́s first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and...

A comedy about an android "household appliance" robot who just wants to be a regular guy.