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Book with tall walking robots [closed]
Somewhere around the year 1988 to 1989 one of my teachers gave me a book to read. I cannot remember the name at all.
I feel like it was probably science fiction and literally the only detail I ...
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Children's book about a robot and a computer system that goes rogue in a school
I have a vague recollection about a children's book I read a while ago, hopefully I'm not mixing things up with something else. Here's what I think I remember, though some of it might be wrong:
Set ...
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Book where a girl living with an older relative discovers she's a robot
I don't remember too much, but the main character was a girl living with either her mom or grandma or aunt. And she lives a pretty normal life except for not being let out much. One day when she's in ...
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Kids’ picture book about a crash-landed rocket and a robot boy on another planet
A long time ago, around when I was in kindergarten (2006ish) I remember reading a book (or rather, looking at the pictures) from the school library. It was a picture book set on another planet, with ...
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Book about accidental robot civilization
I have a memory of a book or short story that I read years ago. It was about a group of human explorers who are investigating an uninhabitable planet. They find that a robotic colony ship had crashed, ...
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Book about a girl on a snow planet who programmed the robots she owns and turns out to be a princess
The book is about a girl on a snow planet. She boxes for funds and owns tiny robots that she coded herself. I believe she had a wristband that helped her code if I'm not mistaken?
A ship crashes on ...
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YA book where the male protagonist has a father missing who was caught up in a war between humans and robots
I'm trying to find a YA book from the 2010s with robots.
It had a male protagonist with a missing father who was caught up in a war between humans and robots. I think a friendly robot was smuggled ...
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Novel about a woman who wakes up turned into a robot with no memory of her past life
I remember reading a book around 5 years ago and cannot find anything about it online using the summary but it is about a woman who wakes up to find she has been turned into a robot and has no memory ...
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Book about a human who believes himself to be a robot
I'm from Brazil and the book I'm looking for is one that is very dear to my father, because it is the first science fiction book he read and it sparked a long trajectory of reading the genre. He read ...
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Book about killer toy robots, Babylon golems, grandfather fakes his death to let the main character get away
It was about these tiny killer robots trying to kill this boy, and his gramps came and dragged him into this weird journey.
I'm gonna talk about spoilers here, gramps has to fake his death so the son ...
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Robot Illustrated Novel about a Man and Talking Ape in Robot World
I'm trying to remember which book series this is.
It was an illustrated novel where it takes place in a future where the human race is replaced with a robot dominant population and a man teams up ...
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Hard SciFi book in which worm robots do maintenance and self assemble [duplicate]
In this book there is a female engineer who uses 3 types of robots to do a lot of the maintenance. The type that interests me is "worm". These robots could join together into a longer links for ...
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Book about a robot in a spaceship that wakes up with the ship failing after having gone through meteoroid rain [duplicate]
The scene that I can remember is the following:
A robot/human (not sure) wake up after a lot of time in his spaceship due to an alarm.
He went to the control room and started to check all the systems....
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Book in which humanity is extinct and AI's wage war against each other
The only other detail my friend could remember is that the AI's that looked the most human were considered superior to those who were not humanoid, i.e. a spider mech that performs hull maintenance.
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Story or book with character named "Bird" and homebuilt security robots
This was probably from the 70s or early 80s. It was post-apocalyptic, and featured home built (mostly small) robots that served to protect the character and his living space. The only character name I ...
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