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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

"The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world." --John Brunner THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . . Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature,... (more)

Skinned

by Robin Wasserman

Lia Kahn was perfect: rich, beautiful, popular -- until the accident that nearly killed her. Now she has been downloaded into a new body that only looks human. Lia will never feel pain again, she will never age, and she can't ever truly die. But she is also rejected by her friends, betrayed by her boyfriend, and alienated from her old life. Forced to the fringes of society, Lia joins others like her. But they... (more)

How to Survive a Robot Uprising

Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion

by Daniel H. Wilson

An inspired and hilarious look at how humans can defeat the inevitable robot rebellion—as revealed by a robotics expert. How do you spot a robot mimicking a human? How do you recognize and then deactivate a rebel servant robot? How do you escape a murderous “smart” house, or evade a swarm of marauding robotic flies? In this dryly hilarious survival guide, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson teaches worried humans... (more)

The Robot Series: Book 1

Caves of Steel

by Isaac Asimov

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley... (more)

Genesis

by Bernard Beckett

Set on a remote island in a post-apocalyptic, plague-ridden world, this electrifying novel is destined to become a modern classic. Anax thinks she knows her history. She’d better. She’s now facing three Examiners, and her grueling all-day Examination has just begun. If she passes, she’ll be admitted into the Academy—the elite governing institution of her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that... (more)

Clockwork Thugs, Yo (Livewires, Vol. 1)

by Adam Warren, Rick Mays, Jason Martin

Hollowpoint Ninja. Gothic Lolita. Cornfed. Stem Cell. Social Butterfly. They're nanobuilt human form combat mecha, with "smartware" bodies specialized for covert ops and Artificially Intelligent minds programmed for suicidal loyalty. They're the superhuman products of a top-secret, quasi-governmental R&D program with a unique agenda: namely, to seek out and destroy other top-secret, quasi-governmental R&D... (more)

The Silver Metal Lover

by Trina Robbins, Tanith Lee

Love is made of more than mere flesh and blood.... Tanith Lee is one of the most thought-provoking and imaginative authors of our time. In this unforgettably poignant novel, Lee has created a classic tale--a beautiful, tragic, erotic, and ultimately triumphant love story of the future. For sixteen-year-old Jane, life is a mystery she despairs of ever mastering. She and her friends are the idle, pampered children... (more)

Tower of Glass

by Robert Silverberg

Simeon Krug has a vision--and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes is to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep space. The colossal tower he's constructing for this purpose soars above the Arctic tundra, and the seemingly perfect androids building it view Krug as their god. But, Krug is only flesh-and-blood, and when his androids discover the truth, their anger... (more)

Gin Tama Vol 1

by Hideaki Sorachi

The samurai didn't stand a chance. First, the aliens invaded Japan. Next, they took all the jobs. And then they confiscated everyone's swords. So what does a hotheaded former samurai like Sakata "Gin" Gintoki do to make ends meet? Take any odd job that comes his way, even if it means losing his dignity.

Doll, Vol. 2

by Mitsukazu Mihara

In these fascinating tales that exist somewhere along the line that separates the living from the dead, a doll gives a pregnant woman a lesson in motherhood; a redesigned doll wants to be accepted by its owners; a manager replaces workers with a crew of dolls; and a lonely man learns the value of life from a doll. With each passing day, dolls become more like humans...and humans struggle to discover what it means... (more)

Foundation Universe: Book 5

The Positronic Man

by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg

In a twenty-first century Earth where the development of the positronic brain has revolutionized the way of life, beloved household robot ""Andrew"" struggles with his unusual capacity for emotion and dreams of becoming human. Reprint.

Burn, Revised 2nd Edition

by Jonathan Lyons

In a surreal twenty-first century full of androids, binaries, chip trippers, NewSchool Grrls and Morlocks, black acid rain and StellarNet obsession, we meet Cage, a private detective down on his luck. Kicked off the prestigious Old New York Police Force after having gone up against Expedite, the most powerful computer corporation in the world, he is struggling to make ends meet when fate seems to lend him a... (more)

Doll - Hardcover Hardcover

by Simon Furman, Mitsukazu Mihara

List 1: a nameless doll Kaya receives a boy doll from her father to serve as her maid. She grows up in a rich family, but lives with constant feelings of despair and loneliness, because she doesn't receive love from any of her family. She develops a closeness to the doll and, over the 40 years of his service, believes that he's the only one who understands her. When she dies, her children put the doll in a coffin,... (more)

MindFlights Issue 1

by Dorine Ratulangie, Terry W. Ervin II

The Naked SunIsaac Asimov

The Robot Series: Book 3

The Naked Sun

by Isaac Asimov

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the... (more)

The Robot Series: Book 3

The Robots of Dawn

by Isaac Asimov

Called to the Spacer world to solve a case of roboticide, New York City detective Elijah Baley teams up with humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw to prove that the prime suspect, a renowned roboticist, is innocent of the crime. Reprint.

Isaac Asimov's Robot Series

Robots and Empire

by Isaac Asimov

Though Elijah Baley is long dead, his name is enshrined in the foremost Settler planet - Baleyworld. And Earthmen who now trade amongst the stars watch hypervision cubes re-enacting his story; he freed Earth of its Spacer overlords.

Kiln People (The Kiln Books)

by David Brin

In a perilous future, disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every citizen's legal and illicit whim. Life as a 24-hour "ditto" is cheap, as Albert Morris knows. A brash investigator with a knack for trouble, he's sent plenty of clay duplicates into deadly peril, then "inloaded" memories from copies that were shot, crushed, drowned . . . all part of a day's work. But when Morris tackles a ring of crooks making... (more)

The I Inside

by Alan Dean Foster

Displaying superhuman feats of strength and suspected of being an intergalactic spy, a mysterious young engineer from Phoenix challenges the authority of the Colligatarch, a gigantic machine that has ruled Earth for a century. Reissue.

The Stepford Wives

by Ira Levin

The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby With an Introduction by Peter Straub For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be... (more)

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by Philip K. Dick

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Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion

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