Robots in Popular Culture: Androids and Cyborgs in the American Imagination seeks to provide one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic robots in American popular culture. In the last 10 years, technology and artificial intelligence (AI) have become not only a daily but a minute-by-minute part of American life—more integrated into our lives than anyone would have believed even a generation before. Americans have long known the adorable and helpful R2-D2 and the terrible possibilities of Skynet and its army of Terminators. Throughout, we have seen machines as valuable allies and horrifying enemies. Today, Americans cling to their mobile phones with the same affection that Luke Skywalker felt for the squat R2-D2. Meanwhile, our phones, personal computers, and cars have attained the ability to know and learn everything about us. This volume opens with essays about robots in popular culture, followed by 100 A–Z entries on the most famous AIs in film, comics, and more. Sidebars highlight ancillary points of interest, such as authors, creators, and tropes that illuminate the motives of various robots. The volume closes with a glossary of key terms and a bibliography providing students with resources to continue their study of what robots tell us about ourselves.

The year is 2153 and Factor Three is traveling with his infinite legions of human officers, Karillian engineers, and Paladin fighters eradicating evil and preparing for the ultimate battle against an abominable force - a force that may finally be Factor Three's only equal. Among Factor Three's closest friends is DeLanie, a renegade woman in possession of the most valuable ship in all the universes, a Karillian prototype frigate. Enemies of every life form seek her and her ship, forcing her to protect herself at any cost. As a result, she is wanted by the authorities on almost every inhabited planet and is the target of every bounty hunter. The story is made even more intriguing through the psychic abilities of Admiral Javic, a brilliant S.O.C. leader whose curiosity about Factor Three's forces and objectives leads him in the path of peril.

In the three decades since the first SF film produced for television--1968's Shadow on the Land--nearly 600 films initially released to television have had science fiction, fantasy, or horror themes. Featuring superheroes, monsters, time travel, and magic, these films range from the phenomenal to the forgettable, from low-budget to blockbuster. Information on all such American releases from 1968 through 1998 is collected here. Each entry includes cast and credits, a plot synopsis, qualitative commentary, and notes of interest on aspects of the film. Appendices provide a list of other films that include some science fiction, horror, or fantasy elements; a film chronology; and a guide to alternate titles.

For anime connoisseurs, beginners, and the curious, the best of the best!

Through spaceships, aliens, ray guns and other familiar trappings, science fiction uses the future (and sometimes the past) to comment on current social, cultural and political ideologies; the same is true of science fiction in children's film and television. This collection of essays analyzes the confluences of science fiction and children's visual media, covering such cultural icons as Flash Gordon, the Jetsons and Star Wars, as well as more contemporary fare like the films Wall-E, Monsters vs. Aliens and Toy Story. Collectively, the essays discover, applaud and critique the hidden--and not-so-hidden--messages presented on our children's film and TV screens.

Explore the universe in this bundled galactic adventure where the crew of the Gypsy Moth explore strange new worlds and fall in love along the way. Includes previously released titles: First Mate’s Accidental Wife ~ It was supposed to be a simple mission. Rescue a woman. Collect a reward. Instead he ends up accidentally married. The Cyborg’s Stowaway ~ Craig 'Crank' Abrams has found a stowaway with the biggest damned eyes he’s ever seen—and a way of tugging at his broken heart. The Captain’s Secret Daughter ~ Captain Kobrah Jameson thought himself rid of the woman who betrayed him until the day she comes back—and she's not alone.

Boldly go where no mage has gone before. The battle for reality itself ignites as mages of all stripes vie for the fabled Horizon Realms, the dimensions juxtaposing Earth and…elsewhere. A villain from the mages’ past returns to claim his legacy, embroiling Earth’s magick makers in a struggle both for survival and for dominance of all known creation. Based on Mage: The Ascension™ from White Wolf Game Studio, The Road to Hell is the first installment in the Horizon War Trilogy. Robert Weinberg is author of the popular Masquerade of the Red Death Trilogy.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer comes a funny, heartfelt, action-packed “Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Land of Stories” adventure series that will take readers on an epic journey across the galaxy to save Earth! Eleven-year-old Roswell Johnson is obsessed with conspiracies about extraterrestrial life, an interest he inherited from his late father, who aptly named Roswell after the infamous UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. When Roswell is accidentally abducted by aliens, his biggest dream comes true—he learns that aliens are real! But when he discovers Earth is in grave danger, he must join forces with a team of quirky extraterrestrials, including two bickering Grays, a humorless Cyborg, a germophobic Mantis, an overly confident Furgarian, and an over achieving Pleiadean to save his planet from a tyrannical invasion. But can Roswell restore his own faith in humanity and Earth in time to save the world?

Lunia Ayr / Trapped on Ulltra, World without Earth, Part 1 / Science Fiction / Space Opera (English Edition) A thrilling space adventure with pursuiter pilot Lunia Ayr! Lunia Ayr, a young woman and one of the last survivors of Earth, is forced to live on the space station Ulltra after a crash landing. How should she deal with her new troik family and what does the terrible prôlik want from her? She will soon find out... And she will meet more than one enemy. Suddenly, one of them is constantly by her side. But all she wants is to get to Opzalon...