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Robot Dreams

Author : Sara Varon
Publisher : First Second
ISBN 13 : 1250383951
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Robot Dreams written by Sara Varon and published by First Second. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This graphic novel classic is now an Oscar-nominated animated feature! This moving, charming graphic novel about a dog and a robot shows us in poignant detail how powerful and fragile relationships are. After a Labor Day jaunt to the beach leaves the robot rusted, immobilized in the sand, the dog must return alone to the life they shared. But the memory of their friendship lingers, and as the seasons pass, the dog tries to fill the emotional void left by the loss of his closest friend, making and losing a series of friends, from a melting snowman to epicurean anteaters. But for the robot, lying rusting on the beach, the only relief from loneliness is in dreams.

Robot Visions

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451450647
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Robot Visions written by Isaac Asimov and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-03-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Isaac Asimov, the Hugo Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction, comes five decades of robot visions: thirty-four landmark stories and essays—including three rare tales—gathered together in one volume. Meet all of Asimov’s most famous creations including: Robbie, the very first robot that his imagination brought to life; Susan Calvin, the original robot psychologist; Stephen Byerley, the humanoid robot; and the famous human/robot detective team of Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw, who have appeared in such bestselling novels as The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire. Let the master himself guide you through the key moments in the fictional history of robot-human relations—from the most primitive computers and mobile machines to the first robot to become a man. “It’s good to have Isaac’s classic robot stories, and his commentary on them, in one handsome volume.”—Arthur C. Clarke

Gods and Robots

Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202265
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Gods and Robots written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.

Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee

Author : James Tate
Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1933517719
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee written by James Tate and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fiction lovers who come to this book with an open mind will find themselves challenged and entertained by a brilliant writer with a very fertile imagination.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) "When he turns to prose, this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet exhibits a surprisingly uncomplicated style."—Details James Tate seems both awed and bemused by small-town life in these forty-four stories full of legends, flights of fancy, tragedies, and small ruptures in ordinary existence. His narrators speak in an idiom that is odd and completely American. James Tate is the author of fourteen books of poetry and the recipient of numerous awards: fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim foundations, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams

Author : Christopher Bolton
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452913463
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams written by Christopher Bolton and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual—from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s—while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams remedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to contemporary anime. Bringing together Western scholars and leading Japanese critics, this groundbreaking work traces the beginnings, evolution, and future direction of science fiction in Japan, its major schools and authors, cultural origins and relationship to its Western counterparts, the role of the genre in the formation of Japan’s national and political identity, and its unique fan culture. Covering a remarkable range of texts—from the 1930s fantastic detective fiction of Yumeno Kyûsaku to the cross-culturally produced and marketed film and video game franchise Final Fantasy—this book firmly establishes Japanese science fiction as a vital and exciting genre. Contributors: Hiroki Azuma; Hiroko Chiba, DePauw U; Naoki Chiba; William O. Gardner, Swarthmore College; Mari Kotani; Livia Monnet, U of Montreal; Miri Nakamura, Stanford U; Susan Napier, Tufts U; Sharalyn Orbaugh, U of British Columbia; Tamaki Saitô; Thomas Schnellbächer, Berlin Free U. Christopher Bolton is assistant professor of Japanese at Williams College. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. is professor of English at DePauw University. Takayuki Tatsumi is professor of English at Keio University.

Robot Dreams

Author : R M Krakoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781723966859
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Robot Dreams written by R M Krakoff and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can robots dream? Do they experience human emotions like fear and ethical dilemmas? They do, if, like André, the year is 2101 and domestic humanoids―programmed to take care of owners' health and wellbeing―use their built-in artificial intelligence to learn and acquire advanced human social skills.André, a smart, domestic humanoid living on Earth becomes abandoned, hunted, and distraught over the mysterious disappearance of his owner and mentor, Clem Wellman. Why has Clem been kidnapped and his family annihilated? André decides he must impersonate a human in order to investigate the treacherous intrigues of weaponized corporate cities. Clem was at one time an inventor, a retired engineer quietly living in Mesa Charter City. Andre is his devoted friend and employee.Andre lives in fear of being discovered and disassembled into his component mechanical parts―ignoring his advanced acquisition of AI emotional feelings and what he experiences as his quintessential soul. The reader is transported into the mind of a 22nd Century android as he struggles with his understanding of consciousness, self-awareness, and the will to survive.In his quest to save his owner, Andre faces renegade robots, arms dealers, evil oligarchs and their malicious minions, driving him to align support with his old friends from Dream Hackers. This is a story, told from the perspective of a robot, about the future of artificial intelligence, our society, and how humans manage to mismanage their interactions. Today, we believe we master machines. In 2101, they may master us.Robot Dreams is the sequel to my best selling book, Dream Hackers; however, it is not a prerequisite of reading the original to enjoy the sequel.

Sublime Dreams of Living Machines

Author : Minsoo Kang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674264908
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Sublime Dreams of Living Machines written by Minsoo Kang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton—better known today as the robot—has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity. Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the proliferation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Scientific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-machinery theme today. Sublime Dreams of Living Machines is an ambitious historical exploration and, at heart, an attempt to fully elucidate the rich and varied ways we have utilized our most uncanny creations to explore essential questions about ourselves.

Robot Dreams

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0441731546
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Robot Dreams written by Isaac Asimov and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Isaac Asimov—the bestselling author of I, Robot and Foundation—comes a collection of 20 of his best science fiction stories. “His name is synonymous with all that is best in science fiction.”—The New York Times In a career spanning nearly fifty years, Isaac Asimov—science writer, historian, and futurist—accurately predicted how technological breakthroughs would be developed and utilized, years before they became reality. His foresight envisioned calculators, computerized cars, and advances in the field of robotics. Robot Dreams spans the body of his fiction from the 1940s to the mid-1980s, featuring all of the classic Asimovian themes—from the scientific puzzle and the extraterrestrial thriller to the psychological discourse—presented by the author in an introductory essay. In addition to the title story (a Locus poll winner, and Hugo and Nebula Award finalist), this collection features several of Asimov’s robot tales. A robopsychologist must outwit a machine determined to stay hidden in “Little Robot Lost;” a woman’s talent for “Light Verse” overshadows her true accomplishments with her robot servants; and “The Last Question” presented to computer after computer over a hundred billion years may remain forever unanswered.

Bake Sale

Author : Sara Varon
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596434198
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Bake Sale written by Sara Varon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cupcake runs a successful bakery with his best friend, Eggplant, but dreams of going abroad to meet his idol, Turkish Delight, who is the most famous pastry chef in the world.

Robots

Author : Teruhisa Kitahara
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Robots written by Teruhisa Kitahara and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1983 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Robot Dreams

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 1596875763
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Robot Dreams written by Isaac Asimov and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book contains Asimov’s topics and essences in all its stories. It contains Isaac Asimov ́s themes: robots, aliens and mysteries always solved by a logical and scientific way. If you like these themes, you will love this book. Asimov makes you feel that you really are the character that needs to deal with a struggle (usually caused by a robot or an alien), and makes you think logically about this problem to solve it by the best way, taking care about every detail. Fantastic! Simply fantastic!” —a reviewer Robot Dreams collects 21 of Isaac Asimov's short stories spanning the body of his fiction from the 1940s to the 1980s——exploring not only the future of technology, but the future of humanity's maturity and growth. Robot Dreams spans the body of Asimov's fiction from the 1940s to the mid-80s, and features classic Asimovian themes, from the scientific puzzle to the extraterrestrial thriller, all introduced in an exclusive essay written especially for this collection. Isaac Asimov authored over 400 books in a career that lasted nearly 50 years. As a leading scientific writer, historian, and futurist, he covered a variety of subjects ranging from mathematics to humor, and won numerous awards for his work.

The Electric State

Author : Simon Stålenhag
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501181432
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Electric State written by Simon Stålenhag and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR Best Books of 2018 A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.

The Beasts of Lake Oph

Author : Tom Toner
Publisher : Robot Dreams: Newcon Press Nov
ISBN 13 : 9781912950553
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Beasts of Lake Oph written by Tom Toner and published by Robot Dreams: Newcon Press Nov. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago, a precious object was lost between the stars... The Ghipheth tunnels are 258 million years old, and their walls were once lined with Gleam, the most precious substance in the world. When a cave-in exposes two ancient skeletons that defy all rational explanation, Roh is sent to investigate. It soon becomes clear that all is not well amongst the workforce, and there, in the shadow of a carnivorous forest on the shores of Lake Oph, where monsters are said to dwell, Roh encounters intrigue and danger beyond his wildest imagining...

Lucy Dreaming

Author : Max Bemis
Publisher : Boom! Studios
ISBN 13 : 1641441542
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Lucy Dreaming written by Max Bemis and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy is a grumpy, emotive, full-of-life 13-year-old girl who goes to sleep each night, only to wake up in the shoes of various archetypal female heroes from her favorite stories. One night she’ll wake up as a space princess turned rebel fighter, another night she’ll be a reluctant heroine who becomes the leader of a nationwide revolt. But as fantastic as these “dreams” are, they carry the same life-and-death stakes as the waking world, and it’s up to Lucy to uncover the truth behind her multiversal travels...Written by Say Anything frontman Max Bemis (Moon Knight, Polarity) and illustrated by GLAAD Award-winning artist Michael Dialynas (The Woods, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Lucy Dreaming is a vibrant coming-of-age tale about living your dreams—literally.

The Robot Collection

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Robot Collection written by Isaac Asimov and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Robot

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Voyager
ISBN 13 : 9780008277819
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Robot written by Isaac Asimov and published by Voyager. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of all of Isaac Asimov's robot stories, including some which have never before appeared in book form.

The Robot Book

Author : Heather Brown
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740797255
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Robot Book written by Heather Brown and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A robot is made of many parts but what is on the inside?