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Varon's book Sweaterweather (2003) was a 2004 Harvey Award nominee for Best Graphic Novel. Varon's book Robot Dreams (2007) landed on many 2007 and 2008 "best-of" lists, including: Oprah's Book Club; YALSA Great Graphic Novels; NYPL Book for the Teen Age; NYPL Book for Reading and Sharing; Bank Street Book of Outstanding Merit
The Stepford Wives (1972) by Ira Levin – "The masculine plot to replace women with perfect looking, obedient robot replicas" Setaur, Aniel and Terminus in Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanisław Lem (1973) The Hangman in Home Is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny (1975), winner of that year's Nebula Award for Best Novella
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
The book received positive reviews from the Associated Press, Janet Maslin from the New York Times, and best-selling authors Lincoln Child and Robert Crais; all calling it "brilliant". Damien Walter of The Guardian , Ron Charles of the Washington Post , and Chris Barton of the Los Angeles Times were less enthusiastic, describing the novel as a ...
Gynoids are humanoid robots that are gendered to be perceived as feminine or to mimic the bodily appearance of female sex humans. They appear widely in science fiction film and art. They are also known as female androids, female robots or fembots, although some media have used other terms such as robotess, cyberdoll or "skin-job".
Amazon's Best Books of the Year is a list of best books created yearly by Amazon.com. It is a list of best books picked by Amazon editors and customers. It began in 2000. Customer favorites are ranked according to the number of sales made through October, for books published in that calendar year. The lists are usually announced in early November.
The Clockwork Girl is an all-ages/science fiction/fantasy comic series created by Sean O'Reilly and Kevin Hanna and inspired by Hanna's earlier zine "Clockwork Girls hate Electronic Boys", that ran for five issues and was published in a collected edition for the first time in 2008.
Artificial intelligence is a recurrent theme in science fiction, whether utopian, emphasising the potential benefits, or dystopian, emphasising the dangers.. The notion of machines with human-like intelligence dates back at least to Samuel Butler's 1872 novel Erewhon.