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The Wild Robot Escapes is a Junior Library Guild book [25] and received starred reviews from Booklist and School Library Journal. [23] [26] Reviewers often referred to The Wild Robot Escapes as "thought-provoking". [24] According to Booklist's Julia Smith, "warmth and gentleness course through the novel, even as dangers emerge". [23]
The robot kills Felipe, but Jeff manages to deactivate the machine and survive the encounter. Ryu Aoki, a machine repairman in Tokyo, Japan, tells the story of a prank that he and his friend Jun pulled on an elderly factory worker named Mr. Nomura. Mr. Nomura lives with a female-looking robot, Mikiko, with whom he has a romantic relationship.
The Positronic Man is a 1992 novel by American writers Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, based on Asimov's 1976 novelette "The Bicentennial Man".. It is about a robot that begins to display characteristics, such as creativity, traditionally the province of humans; the robot is ultimately declared an official human being.
Daneel is one of the two protagonists of Asimov's Robot series books The Caves of Steel (1953), The Naked Sun (1956), and The Robots of Dawn (1983). In these books, he works with human detective Elijah Baley to solve unusual murders. Along with the murder mystery aspect, the stories focus on discussions regarding space exploration and human ...
Children's literature portal; Eager is a children's science-fiction novel written by Helen Fox, and first published in 2003.Eager is the name of a self-aware robot in a futuristic society controlled by a company called LifeCorp.
The distinct robots in the original Mega Man series, including the main character Mega Man and the Robot Masters; The Metal Gears from the Metal Gear series; K1-B0 (nicknamed Keebo) from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony; Monokuma, the main antagonist of the Danganronpa Franchise. Custom Robo; Robot bosses from Contra III: The Alien Wars
The foreword to Prelude to Foundation contains the chronological ordering of Asimov's science fiction books. Asimov stated that the books of his Robot, Empire, and Foundation series "offer a kind of history of the future, which is, perhaps, not completely consistent, since I did not plan consistency, to begin with."
The Complete Robot (1982) is a collection of 31 of the 37 science fiction short stories about robots by American writer Isaac Asimov, written between 1939 and 1977. [1] Most of the stories had been previously collected in the books I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots, while four had previously been uncollected and the rest had been scattered across five other anthologies.