Books tagged: machines

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Renegade Robot    by Tom Lichtenberg
Price: Free! 16970 words. Published on July 31, 2010. .

It's the end of the world as we know it, when the dreaded Singularity finally occurs and happens to be captured, live on tape, by agents of the Frantic News Network, which freaks out, as usual, and causes a lot of trouble for the mild-mannered nanobot exterminator who happens to get caught in the crossfire.
Ponty Green Bear and the Storm Machine    by Robert Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 8160 words. Published on August 20, 2010. .

A mysterious stranger calls Ponty Green Bear to tell him he's lost and wants to be found. Ponty rushes off to help him before he finds out who the stranger is. Luckily for Ponty, he bumps into his friend, George the Spider, who is very good at making lists of things to do and things that can go wrong. Before they find the stranger, they find a mixed-up machine that makes big mud storms.
Organic    by JC Andrijeski
Price: $0.99 USD. 13010 words. Published by White Sun Press  on October 1, 2010. .

What if in the future your car were made of as many animal parts as machine? What if it became self-aware and less and less enamored of toting you and your family around, getting its seats covered in ice cream and being left in parking lots for hours on end? What if it and some of its friends decided to do something about it? In Organic, meet your car. And be nervous. Very, very nervous.
City of the Long Night    by Gerard Mulligan
Price: $4.00 USD. 69720 words. Published on March 24, 2011. .

Jonathan Small is the most powerful man in the sprawling urban mess, known as the City, which covers the globe. He has everything a man could possibly possess except for the one thing he desires the most. Revenge against his family. To achieve this, he will throw the city into chaos and threaten its very survival. As night falls, humanity rules, as dawns comes, things might be a little different.
Daydreams of the Apocalypse: A Collection    by JC Andrijeski
Price: $4.99 USD. 49440 words. Published by White Sun Press  on July 12, 2011. .

Nine stories of the apocalypse, from the point of view of an ex-stock broker, a crow, a young girl, a soldier turned holy warrior, a club-going hipster, a nerdy street punk, a beige-wearing businesswoman, a sentient automobile and a being who incarnates every few centuries only to be killed and have to do the whole thing all over again. Extended version includes the novella The Alien Club.
Le Roi du Rouage (TechLords - Les Seigneurs Tech - Vol. 1)    by Romain Combes
Price: $4.05 USD. 12440 words. Published on August 17, 2011. .

Un jeune homme fait une découverte capitale : le rouage. De quoi le rendre célèbre et révolutionner la vie des habitants du monde de Ganéa. Mais son invention n'est pas du goût de tous, et pourrait bien lui coûter la vie. EN BONUS : la nouvelle Juste un Détour, dans laquelle un voyageur, membre d'une mystérieuse expédition, fait de morbides découvertes.
The Fortress of Clouds    by J.A.J. Peters
Price: $0.99 USD. 94600 words. Published on August 17, 2011. .

By 2037, Los Angeles has descended into a maw of street violence and child labor factories. High above it all, four children have been raised in a safe and secluded apartment. To protect them from the child-abducting gangs that prowl the streets, their mother has forbid them from ever going outside. Or at least that's what she has told them about why they can never leave.
Reality of Shadow    by Geltab
Price: $2.99 USD. 21190 words. Published on December 11, 2011. .

Revenge burns in Dainor's blood. Imprisoned on a false earth for centuries this prince is about to get his memory back and return in force to New Pillar! From the forest of Maffdu to the keep of the universes the air is charged with the power of Dainor and his siblings each vying for the throne of their father. The living spell attached invisibly to his arm is his only hope of surviving.
The Fantastical God-Machine    by Izzy Winchester
Price: $1.00 USD. 3780 words. Published on January 19, 2012. .

January, in a city rotted out by the Depression, like a great grey circus filled with desperate men and half-mad animals. One particular desperate man, in the company of a friend who aspires for more than survival. Faith like a battery, and the incredible engine it runs...
New Universe: Tronconia    by David Majlak
You set the price! 58190 words. Published on January 26, 2012. .

An awoken species adapts to survive natural disasters when a terrifyingly unnatural one occurs. As they fight to keep their civilization alive before their universe is destroyed, they struggle to return to their past, live for their future, and find love among the debris.