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Author: Geronimo Stilton
Publisher:
Published: 2014-11-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780545668132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuskrat City has been struck by a giant blackout and it's so dark, no-one can see a whisker! A gang of criminal robots is robbing the city's jewellery stores and it's up to Geronimo Superstilton and the Heromice to figureout who's behind the attack. Will our heroes be able to solve the mystery?
Author: Alexander Smith
Publisher: Floris Books
Published: 2014-02-13
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1782500294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did the chicken cross the road? TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! The city of Aberdeen is being terrorised by giant robot chickens who want to peck out every last sign of human resistance. The streets are empty, the adults have vanished - and those left behind are fighting for survival. Jesse and his friends are desperate to save their families and stop the feathered fiends. They hatch a master plan ... but can a gang of kids REALLY defeat an army of angry robot chickens? A hilarious, weird and wonderful adventure from a cracking new author.
Author: Michael R. Underwood
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-04-07
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 147675778X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA side-quest novella in the bestselling Geekomancy urban fantasy series—when D&D-style adventures go from the tabletop to real life, look out! Ree Reyes, urban fantasista and Geekomancer extraordinaire, is working her regular drink-slinger shift at Grognard’s bar-and-gaming salon when everything goes wrong. The assorted magic wielders of the city’s underground have come to test their battle skills via RPGs like D&D, V:TES, White Wolf, and the like. All the usuals are there: her ex-mentor Eastwood, Drake (the man-out-of-time adventurer), and, of course, Grognard himself (her boss and a brewer of beer that act as magic potions). However, it’s the presence of these and other “usuals” that makes all the trouble. For, a nemesis from Eastwood and Ree’s past decides to finally take her revenge not just on those two, but on every self-styled “hero” in the city who happens to have crossed her at one point or another. When wave after wave of monsters besiege Grogrnard’s store, if Ree & Co. are going to survive, they’re going to have to work together. And avoid the minotaur. That’s always a good rule of thumb.
Author: Daniel H. Wilson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780747580232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFull of cool, two-color illustrations, this handbook is an inspired and hilarious look at how humans can defeat the inevitable robot rebellion--as revealed by a robotics expert.
Author: Dustin A. Abnet
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-03-27
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 022669285X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough they entered the world as pure science fiction, robots are now very much a fact of everyday life. Whether a space-age cyborg, a chess-playing automaton, or simply the smartphone in our pocket, robots have long been a symbol of the fraught and fearful relationship between ourselves and our creations. Though we tend to think of them as products of twentieth-century technology—the word “robot” itself dates to only 1921—as a concept, they have colored US society and culture for far longer, as Dustin A. Abnet shows to dazzling effect in The American Robot. In tracing the history of the idea of robots in US culture, Abnet draws on intellectual history, religion, literature, film, and television. He explores how robots and their many kin have not only conceptually connected but literally embodied some of the most critical questions in modern culture. He also investigates how the discourse around robots has reinforced social and economic inequalities, as well as fantasies of mass domination—chilling thoughts that the recent increase in job automation has done little to quell. The American Robot argues that the deep history of robots has abetted both the literal replacement of humans by machines and the figurative transformation of humans into machines, connecting advances in technology and capitalism to individual and societal change. Look beneath the fears that fracture our society, Abnet tells us, and you’re likely to find a robot lurking there.
Author: Daniel Grote
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2005-11
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0595370993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. Steve Onus woke up one day thinking he had unlocked the secret to programming humanlike intelligence into android robots. What he got instead was the business end of God's boredom. With a doomsday cult trailing his every move, and the media and protestors setting up permanent residence outside his house, Dr. Steve is forced out of his private medical practice and into a world of sheer idiocy. On the way he is forced to team up with one of his own robots and a quasi-religious fanatic in order to stop Armageddon and get revenge on his ex-wife. Of Robots, God, and Government is a philosophical discourse on robotics, the End of Days, and what happens when God gets the rainy day blues.
Author: Armin Krishnan
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780754677260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMilitary robots, and potentially autonomous robotic systems, could soon be introduced to the battlefield, meaning that humans may one day be largely excluded from both the battlefield and the decision cycle of warfare. Armin Krishnan explores the technological, legal and ethical issues connected to combat robotics, examining both the opportunities and limitations of autonomous weapons. He also proposes solutions to the future regulation of military robotics through international law.
Author: B.D. Murphy
Publisher: WorstAuthor LLC
Published: 2023-07-31
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrincess Kainda runs away after learning she is targeted to die; the supposed random pirate attack she just survived wasn’t so random after all. To survive, how does she know whom to trust? Deal Hunter is not a typical salvaging freighter in this space sector, and the ship’s secret could make them a target of every pirate in the system. After escaping as a stowaway Kainda can only see one path, and that is to trust the captain of the Deal Hunter. Trusting the captain is a risky move, but the only option she has now. With conviction and unconventional thinking can she stop who is trying to kill her or will she simply be another pirate victim?
Author: Daniel H. Wilson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-04-17
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0307740803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Martina André
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Published: 2022-11-01
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 8726237121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe gripping final instalment in the popular RoboLove trilogy. Silver, former combat robot turned rebel, is tasked by his leader with a highly sensitive mission – to protect Patricia, First Lady of the PanAmerican States, from a treacherous assassin. To get as close to her as possible, Silver takes on the role of her handsome companion. There’s just one snag: her powerful ex-husband sends a female robot to be her new bodyguard. Soul – the breathtakingly beautiful R9 model – distrusts Silver from the very beginning. Yet she has no idea that this high-tech rival will turn her mission upside down. Perfect for fans of Evangeline Anderson, Ruby Dixon, and Laurann Dohner. Bestselling German author Martina André was born in Bonn in 1961. She has published several successful books including the well-known Templar novels. Martina André lives with her family near Koblenz and in Edinburgh, Scotland, which has become her second home.
