10 books like Chrome

What to read after Chrome — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Mad Scientists Daughter Cassandra Rose Clarke · 2013 · ★ 3.7 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A stand-alone novel from the author of The Assassin's Curse and The Pirate's Wish. "Cat, this is Finn. He’s going to be your tutor." He looks and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. A billion-dollar construct, his primary task now is to tutor Cat. As she grows into a beautiful young woman, Finn is her… Shares: Androids, Robots

Machines That Think Isaac Asimov · 1984 · ★ 3.4 · 627p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Moxon's Master - short story by Ambrose Bierce The Lost Machine - novelette by John Wyndham Rex - short story by Harl Vincent Robbie - short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow 1940) Farewell to the Master - novelette by Harry Bates Robot's Return - short story by Robert Moore Williams (variant of Robots Return) Though Dreamers Die - novelette by Lester del Rey Fulfillment -… Shares: Androids, Robots

Rogue Protocol Martha Wells · 2018 · ★ 4.2 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayChris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good." Shares: Androids, Robots

Exit Strategy Martha Wells · 2018 · ★ 4.4 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes to a thrilling conclusion in Exit Strategy. Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous… Shares: Androids, Robots

Time and again Clifford D. Simak · 1951 · ★ 3.9 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate It is the future and Mankind has spread to the stars like seeds before the wind. One star system, though, shrouded in mystery, has defied Man's every attempt to visit it. Every expedition to 61 Cygni has found its path inexplicably deflected and has been forced to return home in frustration. In desperation, special agent Asher Sutton was sent on a solo mission, but unlike the others he did not… Shares: Androids, Robots

Autonomous Annalee Newitz · 2017 · ★ 3.6 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 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 become… Shares: LGBTQ science fiction & fantasy, Robots

A choice of gods Clifford D. Simak · 1971 · ★ 3.7 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate One night in July, 2135, there were some eight billion people on Earth! The next morning there were perhaps 400. There was no clue to what had happened to the world's population—but, over the centuries that followed, still stranger things occurred. The human lifespan now stretched to millennia instead of decades, and much of the remaining population developed the ability to move at will among… Shares: Androids, Robots

All Systems Red Martha Wells · 2017 · ★ 4.1 · 163p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The series is about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor unit, thus enabling it to develop independence. It calls itself Murderbot, and likes to watch unrealistic soap operas. As it spends more time with some caring humans, it starts developing feelings that it does not care for. Shares: Androids, Robots

Artificial Condition Martha Wells · 2018 · ★ 4.2 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Moderate It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers… Shares: Androids, Robots

The Perfect Wife J. P. Delaney · 2019 · ★ 3.7 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "A missing woman receives a second chance at life, thanks to her billionaire husband--but the consequences are deadly in this gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before. Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He's an icon of the tech world,… Shares: Androids, Robots

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