18 books like The Positronic Man

What to read after The Positronic Man — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

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, Ficción, Robots, Science Fiction

Prodigy Arthur Byron · 1988 · ★ 3.3 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Moderate xv, 171 p. ; 20 cm Shares: Ciencia-ficción, Ficción, Robots

Robots and Empire Isaac Asimov · 1985 · ★ 4.2 · 507p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Esta quinta novela de la «Serie de los robots» supone un sensacional hito en la galaxia de ciencia ficción de Asimov y constituye la apasionante continuación del bestseller Los robots del amanecer . En Robots e imperio vemos cómo el futuro del universo corre peligro. Aunque se han debilitado las fuerzas de los siniestros Spacers, el doctor Kelden Amadiro no ha olvidado -ni perdonado- su… Shares: Ciencia-ficción, Robots, Science Fiction

The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury · 1950 · ★ 4.2 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized Mars, initially sharing the planet with a handful of Martians. When Earth is devastated by nuclear war the colony is left to fend for itself and the… Shares: Ciencia-ficción, Ficción, Science Fiction

The Terminal Man Michael Crichton · 1972 · ★ 3.5 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The classic thriller and "New York Times" bestseller is reissued with a new look. Prone to violent seizures, Harry Benson undergoes an experimental procedure that implants electrodes in his brain, sending soothing pulses to the brain's pleasure canyon. However, Harry learns how to control the pulses and increase their frequency. Harry then escapes--a homicidal maniac loose in the city--and… Shares: Ciencia-ficción, Ficción, Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov's Inferno Roger MacBride Allen · 1994 · ★ 3.3 · 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

The Runaway Robot Lester del Rey · 1964 · ★ 4.5 · 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 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

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

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 history of robots Chris Oxlade · 2017 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Do you know that the first industrial robot started work in 1959? Now robots are in factories, in homes, laboratories, and the sky. Robots explore other planets as well as ocean depths. They also carry out jobs that are dangerous for humans. From the first robots of the 1950s to the drones and androids of the present day, this book charts the amazing history of robots. Shares: Robots, History

The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin · 1974 · ★ 4.3 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the planet, Anarres, to challenge… Shares: Ciencia-ficción, Ficción, Science Fiction

三体 刘慈欣 · 2008 · ★ 3.9 · 417p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Cixin Liu's trilogy-opening novel about first contact with aliens and the clandestine struggle with them over Earth's future, and its scientific progress in particular. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space in an attempt to make contact with aliens—and they succeed. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures… Shares: Ciencia-ficción, Science Fiction, History

Forward the Foundation Isaac Asimov · 1993 · ★ 4.3 · 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, Ficción, Science Fiction

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

The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut · 1959 · ★ 4.2 · 317p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "His best book," Esquire wrote of Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan, adding, "he dares not only to ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it." This novel fits into that aspect of the Vonnegut canon that might be classified as science fiction, a quality that once led Time to describe Vonnegut as "George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into… Shares: Ciencia-ficción, Science Fiction

Bad Luck and Trouble Lee Child · 1984 · ★ 4.2 · 439p · ≈ 14h · Moderate From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher—soldier, cop, hero—is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee… Shares: Military police, Science Fiction

One Shot Lee Child · 2005 · ★ 4.4 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, ex–military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shooter—a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is… Shares: Military police, Science Fiction

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