books about: android

books about: android

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Android

The Terminator Omnibus, Vol. 1 (v. 1)

Various

Dark Horse, 2008

Surprised
I was nicely surprised at how good these stories were in this omnibus. If your a fan of the movies, Dark Horse really provides alot of extra in this volume. Not to mention for the price you get alot of TPB.

Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch ...

Philip K. Dick

Library of America, 2007

A Great Introduction to the World of Philip K. Dick
This is the first of two volumes in the Library of America series containing novels by Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) published during the the 1960's and 1970's. At present, they represent the only volumes of the LOA series devoted to SciFi material. While I had never ...

Professional Android Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

Reto Meier

Wrox, 2008

Absolutely essential
Although the online documentation for Android is very good, I much prefer to have a coherently written book that I can flip through for reference. In learning Android I have found Mr Meier's book to be absolutely invaluable. It is written from the point of view of a ...

Saturn's Children

Charles Stross

Ace Hardcover, 2008

Ignore the all the reviews posted by Americans
This is one hell of an entertaining and thought provoking book. Again, the book is almost entirely centred on a female character - one Freya Nakamachi - Baroque and Renaissance musician, professional concubine and kick-arse cybernetic dame! (you gotta be interested ...

The Android's Dream

John Scalzi

Tor Science Fiction, 2007

Everything from flatulence to flowers
I will start by saying, "Wow!" This book was the most fun I have had reading in a long time. It is just wild. There are no androids in this book, nor is dreaming of any importance. The title means something completely different, but I will not spoil the surprise ...

The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle (Click now for this great recession-busting price! Or ...

Harvard Perspectives Press (hppress.blogspot.com), 2007

Wouldn't leave home without it
I received my Kindle as a gift in August and have throroughly enjoyed it but couldn't have as much without the Windwalker guide. I, of course, downloaded it right after getting the Kindle and was so impressed I ordered the hard copy so I would be easier able to ...

Blade Runner(TM) (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

Philip K. Dick

Del Rey, 1987

So much more than "Blade Runner"!
This is NOT the movie. It is bigger, deeper, more meaningful and philosophical -- one of Philip K. Dick's best books ever. (It has been explained to me that the primary significance of the movie "Blade Runner" was that it presented a fully imagined future.) I wish I ...

The Alchemy Of Stone

Ekaterina Sedia

Prime Books, 2008

Outstanding and overlooked!
This is the kind of speculative fiction that got me hooked on the genre as a teenager. Without bogging one down in pages of exposition, she creates an immersive Miyazaki-like world where magic, science and alchemy interact. The protagonist is psychologically complex ...

The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development

Mark L. Murphy

CommonsWare, LLC, 2008

Excellent, gentile introduction to Android
If you're new to mobile development or new to cell phone development, The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development will get you started fast. It covers all of the basics, and gets you far enough to be able to be productive using Google's documentation. What more ...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick

Del Rey, 1996

Great Book
Awesome book, if you like Blade runner you'll love this. (I'm assuming most people saw the movie before reading the book)

Robots, Androids and Animatrons, Second Edition : 12 Incredible Projects You Can Build

John Iovine

McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, 2001

This book has changed my life.
I bought this book with the humble desire of creating a simple companion. After I finished, the Creation turned on me and my family and reprogrammed my VCR. It then proceeded to change the message on my answering machine. It somehow convinced my Nissan truck not to ...

The Android (Animorphs, No. 10) (Animorphs)

K.A. Applegate

Scholastic Paperbacks, 1997

Fabulous!!!!!!!
This book was fantastic!! I loved it!! Of course, I love all Animorph books!! It was weird, crazy, and insane all at once!! KA Applegate is the best author ever! She did a fantastic(times 100000000000000000 more)Buy this book! Or the Yeerks shall get you.

Robots!: Draw Your Own Androids, Cyborgs & Fighting Bots
Jay Stephens

Lark Books, 2008

With an off-beat sense of humor that makes learning fun, Jay Stephens shows kids how to draw a wide range of marvelous mechanical creatures complete with hardwired heads, bionic bodies, and lots of electrical extras. Budding cartoonists will be pleased to meet and illustrate such unique characters as Automa Tom, the cyborg Cyborella, Astralux, and ...

Android Essentials (Firstpress)

Chris Haseman

Apress, 2008

Outdated
This book could have been decent, but instead it's just outdated. Too many things have changed in the SDK. I recommend waiting either for an updated version of this book, or a different book covering 0.9 beta, or better yet, 1.0.

Killswitch: A Cassandra Kresnov Novel

Joel Shepherd

Pyr, 2007

GI Jane meets Cassandra
This is the third in a series of titles featuring everybody's favorite synthetic person, Cassandra Kresnov. Created by one of two competing interstellar political entities, The League, she is an experimental, very high intellect GI: a soldier, a leader, a surfer, a ...