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A rogue AI security unit must protect its humans from corporate mercenaries while binge-watching soap operas and avoiding emotional vulnerability.
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In the Lives of Puppets
In a forest far from the cities the machines rule, Victor Lawson lives with the android who raised him, a sardonic nurse robot and an anxious vacuum, until he repairs a decommissioned android called Hap and draws the attention of the machines who come looking for it.
Old Man's War
On his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins the Colonial Defense Forces, which give him a young, enhanced body in exchange for leaving Earth for ever and fighting humanity's wars across the stars.
Columbus Day
When aliens invade Earth on Columbus Day, Joe Bishop, a young army specialist, is sent to fight on alien worlds and ends up teamed with Skippy, an ancient, arrogant AI in something like a beer can.
Skyward
Spensa, a girl on the planet Detritus whose father was branded a coward, wants nothing more than to be a pilot fighting the alien Krell, and finds a broken ship with an AI in a cave.
Double Star
Lorenzo Smythe, an out-of-work actor, is hired to impersonate a kidnapped political leader for a single ceremony on Mars, and finds the role growing far bigger than he bargained for.
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Software developer Bob Johansson signs up to have his head frozen, dies, and wakes a century later as the computer intelligence of a self-replicating space probe, sent by a theocratic government to find new worlds while rival nations try to destroy him.
Project Hail Mary
An astronaut wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of his mission, and must solve an interstellar puzzle with the help of an unlikely alien friend.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Lunar colonists revolt against Earth's exploitation, guided by a sentient computer, a one-armed revolutionary, and a polyamorous family.
Gideon the Ninth
A necromancer's cavalier apprentice arrives at a crumbling space palace where the heirs of nine ancient houses are being murdered one by one.
The Martian
An astronaut stranded on Mars must science his way to survival, one potato at a time.
Unsouled
A boy born without the ability to use his world's magic system sets out to prove that willpower can overcome any limitation.
I, Robot
Nine stories chart the evolution of intelligent robots and the Three Laws designed to keep them safe, laws that prove more slippery than anyone intended.