18 books like Robots and Empire

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Time and Again Jack Finney · 1970 · ★ 3.9 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Moderate [Comment by Audrey Niffenegger, on The Guardian's website][1]: Time and Again is an original; there is nothing quite like it. It is the story of Si Morley, a commercial artist who is drawing a piece of soap one ordinary day in 1970 when a mysterious man from the US Army shows up at his Manhattan office to recruit him for a secret government project. The project turns out to involve time… Shares Science Fiction

Looking Backward Edward Bellamy · 2007 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Science Fiction with this book.

The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 543p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder:… Shares Science Fiction

The Robots of Dawn Isaac Asimov · 1983 · ★ 4.5 · 445p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A millennium into the future two advances 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. Detective Elijah Baley is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of… Shares Long Now Manual for Civilization, Robots, American literature

Isaac Asimov's Robot City 1 - Odyssey Michael P. Kube-McDowell · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Beyond Aurora awaits a brave new world...of robots! A man without memory is stranded in a world-enveloping city filled with robots gone wild. At his side is a mysterious young woman who claims to know who he is but refuses to tell him. According to the Three Laws of Robotics, "A robot may not injure a human being," which narrows the suspects dramatically when the robots find a dead human body.… Shares Ciencia-ficción, Robots, Science Fiction

Edison's conquest of Mars Garrett Putman Serviss · 1947 · ★ 2.8 · 119p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The original sequel to HG Wells War of the Worlds as written by the science editor of the Hearst newspaper group. Mentioned multiple times by rocket pioneer Robert Hutchings Goddard in his diaries as one of the sources of inspiration for him. The 2005 paperback edition from Apogee Books includes an extensive history of the work by Robert Godwin, noted space historian and space curator of the… Shares American literature, Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov's Utopia Roger MacBride Allen · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In a universe protected by the Three Laws of Robotics, humans are safe. The Third Law states, A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. The world of Inferno is dying. A world where Spacers work with Settlers, where standard Three-Law robots exist alongside the controversial New-Law robots. A world that will be uninhabitable… Shares Robots, Science Fiction

The killer thing Kate Wilhelm · 1967 · ★ 3.2 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A robot destroys its inventor and programs itself to kill all life. How much must be sacrificed to stop it? Shares Robots, Science Fiction

The Runaway Robot Lester del Rey · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate this is one of the first sf books that I read and will always remember it. Shares Robots, Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov's Inferno Roger MacBride Allen · 1994 · ★ 2.0 · 285p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In a Universe protected by the Three Laws of Robotics, humans are safe. The Second Law states, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. When a key politician is murdered, suspicion falls on Caliban... the only robot without guilt or conscience, with no need to obey or to respect humanity... a robot without the Three Laws.… Shares Robots, Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov's Caliban Roger MacBride Allen · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In a universe protected by the Three Laws of Robotics, humans are safe. The First Law states, A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.When an experiment with a new type of robot brain goes awry, the unthinkable happens. Caliban is created... A robot without guilt or conscience. A robot with no knowledge of or compassion for humanity. A robot… Shares Robots, Science Fiction

Eager Helen Fox · 2003 · ★ 3.7 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate It's the end of the 21st century where technocrats rule and robots take care of humans' every need. Your house watches you, knows your secrets, and talks to you. And your closest friend can be--a machine? Gavin Bell and his teenage sister Fleur come from a middle-class family. Their much-loved, old-fashioned robot, Grumps, is running down and can't be repaired, so a scientist friend loans them… Shares Robots, Science Fiction

Norby, the Mixed-up Robot Janet Asimov · 1983 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Jeff Wells, a Space Academy student, and Norby, a second-hand robot with unusual abilities, find themselves involved in the sinister plans of Ing the Ingrate, who intends to take over the universe. Shares Robots, Science Fiction

Eager's nephew Helen Fox · 2004 · 299p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In a world which has banned self-aware robots, Eager and his brilliant but headstrong nephew, Jonquil, come out of hiding to visit the Bell family, and soon become involved in the mysterious and dangerous events surrounding them and their friends. Shares Robots, Science Fiction

Prodigy Arthur Byron · 1988 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Moderate xv, 171 p. ; 20 cm Shares Ciencia-ficción, Robots

The Robot Novels Isaac Asimov · 1954 · ★ 4.4 · 404p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Robots, Science Fiction with this book. Shares Robots, Science Fiction

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury · 1953 · ★ 4.0 · 187p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title as "'the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns": the autoignition temperature of paper. The lead character, Guy Montag,… Shares Novela, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Science Fiction

Forward the Foundation Isaac Asimov · 1993 · ★ 4.5 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate During the whole Foundation series, one man has always had his hand in the development of a galaxy. Merely hinted at in previous books, visited off and on for historical background - finally here delved into as deep as one can go - the demystified Hari Seldon. This follows about 40 years of his life, and traces his progress in the development of Psychohistory - the pseudo-mathematical science… Shares Ciencia-ficción, Long Now Manual for Civilization, American literature, Science Fiction

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