androids

Yumi does not know what to do when she falls in love with her boss Hiroyasu Ueda only to learn he was formerly married to a persocom that sacrificed its life for him, while Hideko agrees to an inquiry into his persocom Chi's unique abilities.

Hideki continues to search for the female android named Chi, who has been kidnapped.

A rumor spreads that the female android named Chi is a Chobit, and someone wants to kidnap her.

"Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayChris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good"--Dust jacket.

"It has a dark past--one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks"--OCLC.

Former best friends Eve and Lemon Fresh are in a race to find Ana Monrova who possess the DNA required to create an army of synthetics that could result in the destruction of humanity. Meanwhile, Cricket has been sold off to the Brotherhood where he's believed to be a war bot with incredible killing capabilities.

In an alternative 1980s historical London, Charlie is a drifter, avoiding full-time employment, with a crush on the smart student Miranda, who herself lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie unexpectedly comes into money, he buys one of the world's first synthetic humans and with Miranda's help designs Adam, the android, and his perfect personality. A love-triangle forms, and Charlie, Miranda, and Adam must confront moral dilemmas.

"When Eve learns she can destory machines with her mind, she becomes a target for a group of puritanical fanatics, and with her new android best friend Ezekiel, faces cyborg assassins'--OCLC.

Alpha Lysander Steele and his band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers threaten the already delicate peace treaty between Earth and Luna. Iko, the android best friend of Lunar Queen Cinder, must hunt Steele down and stop him. But Steele won't stop until Queen Cinder reverses the forced wolf mutations and is ready to take hostages and massacre the people of Earth to achieve his goals.

"Once Ana was an orphaned space outlaw. Then she was the Empress of the Iron Kingdom. Now, thought dead by most of the galaxy after she escaped from the dark AI program called the HIVE, Ana is desperate for a way to save Di from the HIVE's evil clutches and take back her kingdom. Ana's only option is to find Starbright, the one person who hacked into the HIVE and lived to tell the tale. But when Ana's desperation costs the crew of the Dossier a terrible price, Ana and her friends are sent spiraling through the most perilous reaches of the Iron Kingdom to stop the true arbiter of evil in her world: an ancient world-ending deity called the Great Dark. Their journey will take their sharp-witted pilot, Jax, to the home he never wanted to return to and the dangerous fate he left behind. And when Robb finds out who Jax really is, he must contend with his own feelings for the boy he barely knows, and question whether he truly belongs with this group of outcasts. When facing the worst odds, can Ana and her crew of misfits find a way to stop the Great Dark once and for all?"--From the publisher's web site.