Robots

Sep 13

Review of World Running Down by Al Hess

Hess's dystopian Utah relies on AI, robots, and the growing, stark split between the haves and have-nots. Trans salvager Val is just...

Mar 9

Review of August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White

White's first Starmetal Symphony installment offers deadly deep-space robots, showcases the power of music, and illustrates how love can...

Oct 5, 2022

Review of A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1) by Becky Chambers

Chambers's slim book explores a man's search for meaning--and how a robot's simple questions about maintaining the status quo might open...

Jun 9, 2022

Review of Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter

Lostetter's standalone science fiction is a story about robots, a ragtag space crew, friends like family, and reimagining one's place in...

Apr 26, 2022

Review of Nightwatch on the Hinterlands by K. Eason

In Eason's science fiction mystery, an unlikely pair who get on each other's nerves work together to determine who is responsible for a...

Jan 20, 2022

Review of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers #1) by Alex White

The first in Alex White's Salvagers space opera series offers diverse characters, strong women, a heist setup, and, ultimately, a ragtag...

Jan 11, 2022

Review of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers

Chambers's science fiction is full of heart, heartbreak, and hope--with a fascinating backdrop of space travel and interspecies...

Jul 19, 2021

Review of Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot #6) by Martha Wells

Fugitive Telemetry is full of more wonderfully grumpy Murderbot, flummoxed by humans' behavior and saving their skins at every turn. It's...

Jul 16, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/16/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Down Comes the Night, a young adult fantasy story featuring magical healing and warring kingdoms;...

Jun 18, 2021

Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI

The Robot Books I love a good artificial intelligence- or robot-focused story, and these six (plus, in several cases, their sequels)...

Jun 15, 2021

Review of Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

ICYMI: I've been thinking lately about robot books and specifically about this great series by Neuvel, in which a girl stumbles upon...

Jun 3, 2021

Review of A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls #2) by Hank Green

This ending to Green's duology has tremendous heart without ever flirting with sappiness, deep meaning without being pedantic, and it...

May 31, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/31/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now Two of these books are largely about redemption, two focus on the twisted blessing-and-curse of technology, and...

Mar 1, 2021

Review of Machinehood by S.B. Divya

Space! Robots! Artificial intelligence! Divya has crafted strong female main protagonists who navigate the sometimes dark, always...

Feb 24, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/24/21 Edition

01 Machinehood by S.B. Divya In her debut novel, Divya offers a society set in 2095. Humanity is reliant on homemade and commercially...

Sep 9, 2020

Review of Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson

Robots, time travel, teen angst, and this gorgeous cover. Yes to all of this. I didn't anticipate the great twists Johnson provides.

Aug 29, 2020

Review of Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells

This one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series is perfect science-fiction e

Jul 19, 2020

Review of Exit Strategy (Murderbot #4) by Martha Wells

Murderbot is a part-organic robot who continues to be inconveniently and fiercely loyal to certain humans.

Jul 5, 2020

Review of This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Authors El-Mohtar and Gladstone present rival elite agents, Red and Blue, who exist on opposite sides of an immense futuristic war.

May 7, 2020

Review of books 1-3 of the Murderbot series by Martha Wells

Murderbot shows a reluctant, grumpy ability to care for others and a desire to develop its own sense of duty and sense of self.

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