androids

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androids

Android in the attic

2013
Aunt Edna has created a no-nonsense nanny android to make sure Billy and Alfie don't have any fun. But then Alfie discovers how to override Auntie Anne-Droid's programming and nothing can stop them eating all the Cheeki Choko Cherry Cakes they like, until the real aunt Edna is kidnapped.

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the first machine dynasty
Amy Peterson is a von Neumann self-replicating android, part synthetic, part organic. When her android grandmother arrives and tries to kill her and the other androids at her facility, Amy does the only thing she can--eat her grandmother, circuitry and all, which breaks the failsafe in her keeping her from harming human beings.

iD

the second machine dynasty
Amy Peterson, a self-replicating android, has broken her failsafe, meaning she no longer has to follow her programming to protect humans. She and her synthetic partner, Javier, hole up together in a robot paradise which soon comes under attack by humans who only want to use Amy, prompting them to run to Mecha, the robot city, before it is too late.

Feedback

2013
"After escaping the walls of Maxfield Academy, Benson Fisher finds himself trapped in a town that is also under the school's control -- where he discovers that Maxfield's plans are deadlier than anything he imagined."--provided by publisher.

Humanoid robots

running into the future
2014
Describes the past, present, and possible future of robots that resemble humans and human behavior.

Deus Vitae

Volume 1
2004

Heat guy J

2005
Daisuke Aurora and his partner Heat Guy J, an android, work in the special division of peacekeepers in city of Jewde to keep anything illegal off the streets.

Breakaway

a Cassandra Kresnov novel
2007
After saving the life of the president and becoming a member of the Federation, android Cassandra Kresinov joins forces with covert operations specialists Ari and Ayako, who are investigating terrorist groups in the Tanushan underground, and worries the League will want her back.

Avigon

2005
Avigon, a beautiful clockwork, runs away; however, the outside world treats her cruelly and she decides she must try and escape.

Do androids dream of electric sheep?. Vol. 2.

2010
In 2021 when a world war has sent most humans off-planet to Mars, technology has advanced to the point that highly realistic artificial horses, birds, cats, sheep, and humans are being produced. Human androids are so sophisticated that they are banned from Earth and sent to Mars. Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter whose job is to find rogue androids and retire them, but androids fight back like humans when their existence is threatened.

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