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A sci fi adventure thriller for adults who love robot fiction They built him to take out their trash. Turns out they're next. Tedd is a trash droid with an "anomaly" — he can think for himself. Management wants him smelted, and his runaway mouth isn't helping. He could disappear quietly. He...

Master Lecture Series: History of the Third Robot War is a future history lecture so epic it will knock your digital socks off! In this satirical Audible Original that turns The Great Courses on its head, Professor Tirannous Rexavier Shepard guides you through the multiverse-shattering events of the war, from the opening "pyew pyews" through Le Battle Finale. Master Lecture Series pays homage to the Sci-Fi and Fantasy genres with gut-busting (and circuit-bending) whimsy.

Tedd saved the world. Their thanks: a bounty on his head.With the Manager gone, humanity wasted no time declaring war on every robot left standing — hunting them for parts, for sport, and for credits.Now a new force is emerging from the wreckage. They call themselves Phoenix.Their mission...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Far out on the Scatter, past the place where the trade-lanes thin and give out, the crew of the space barge The Marigold come upon a thing adrift in the cold void: a small worn machine, wiped nearly to nothing, still turning one faithful light toward a...

John MacAlister finally has a respectable life. Naturally, he's about to ruin it. Steady work. A budding relationship. A reason to stay put. None of it's enough to kill the itch. When an encrypted message arrives from Bernie Jennison—the scientist who built Alvis and vanished years ago—John can't help seeing it as a sign that his days as a space adventurer aren't over. Bernie is alive. He's in trouble. And Castor—the rogue AI everyone believed destroyed —was never gone. The Star Corps won't intervene. John sees a mission too important to ignore.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. They all agreed the old engine was finished. Not one of them had asked it why it would not go. A warm, hopeful cozy science fiction novella for grown-ups, perfect for readers who love a low-stakes, big-heart comfort read with a found-family crew, a...

Clunk, a clapped-out robot, is convinced he's about to be junked. Instead, his penny-pinching boss is sending him off to be refurbished. Being old and wise, Clunk knows there's a catch, but at first it doesn't seem too bad. He just has to help a freelancer pick up some cargo. Unfortunately, Hal Spacejock - the freelancer - is obstinate, over-confident, and woefully under-skilled, and he's never going to let a lowly robot fly his precious ship.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You will expect a marching automaton. You will find a child’s tin soldier no longer than a thumb, his paint worn grey, his ankle mended with a careful bead of solder. The barge The Marigold puts down on Bellow’s Pile, a working junk-moon run by one...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A beloved travelling carnival of clockwork wonders pitches in a hard-pressed frontier town, and its marvels begin failing on cue, the same charming fumble the same way twice, always where the crowd can see. This is the cozy science fiction comfort read...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The barge The Marigold puts down at Dust Creek for a quiet supper and finds a whole town gone mad with bunting. The frontier’s biggest wedding in a generation is tomorrow, and the hired ceremonial crew, a brace of servers, two ushers, and one stately...

After interstellar con man Rex Nihilo hijacks a cargo freighter on a whim, he decides that he, and his long-suffering robot sidekick Sasha, have found their calling as space pirates. But when the ship's cargo turns out to be a cryogenically frozen religious fanatic who holds the secret to a vast galactic conspiracy, Rex and Sasha find themselves on the run from real pirates - as well as agents of the oppressive Malarchy, crazy space cultists, and the Ursa Minor mafia. If Rex is going to get out of this jam alive, he might just have to save the galaxy - again.

Ruby Palmer finds herself on an entire planet surrounded by the things she hates the most: robots. Besides taking everything she says way too literally, the robots have problems of their own. A myriad of technical glitches are, on the cosmological scale, quickly destroying them. Ruby has the programming knowledge and skills that matter to them, but can she overcome her fears and find it within herself to help? Her survival, along with the survival of all of humanity and robot kind, depends on it.

First published in 1921, Karel Capek's ultra-prescient play R.U.R has become a classic of dystopian literature, giving us the word 'robot' and inspiring movies and TV series from Blade Runner to Westworld. Set in Capek's 1920s version of the future, this radio reimagining blends music, comedy and drama to tell the story of a world dominated by mechanisation and the pursuit of profit.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. They all agreed the keeper was a glitch. Not one of them had gone out to ask it why it kept the light. A warm, hopeful cozy science fiction novella for grown-ups, perfect for readers who love a low-stakes, big-heart comfort read with a found-family crew...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Some machines break. The Sisters of Mercy are running exactly as they were built to. That is the whole trouble. A warm, hopeful cozy science fiction novella for grown-ups, perfect for readers who love a low-stakes, big-heart comfort read with a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Everyone on the station agreed the little robot was gone for good. Not one of them had actually looked. A warm, hopeful cozy science fiction novella for grown-ups, perfect for readers who love a low-stakes, big-heart comfort read with a found-family...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Some troubles can't be rebooted. They have to be understood. Out along the Scatter, a loose chain of half-tamed worlds strung on the old trade routes, there is always a machine in trouble that nobody else knows how to help. That is where Roy comes in...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. An ice-bound outpost is snowed in for the winter, no relief is coming until the thaw, and the caretaker-robot that runs its warmth has begun letting rooms go cold by a logic no one can follow. This is the cozy science fiction comfort read about going in...

Planet Hyman is at a lost as Hilda takes a sabbatical, she has found her "pleasure dome" and while she learns there is more to life than a new manifesto, H2 and DBO plot a coup. With Mex hungover, and Beryl shamed, there is little to stand in their way apart from a hippy colony too chilled to care, a reporter with no scruples, and a missing set of batteries. Will H2 and DBO take over the planet and run it the proletarian way? Or will Hilda rise from her wet dreams toss her dead batteries to the wind and take over from where Beryl left?

A richly funny and fantastical novel about the strangeness at the heart of even the most ordinary lives, from one of South Korea’s most acclaimed novelists.