After the accident, she wakes up in a body that is actually a machine designed to look and feel human. Skinned by Robin Wasserman is the story of Lia Kahn, a beautiful and popular girl who was destined for success until she almost died in a horrific accident. Not only did it end in disaster, but it left him with a psychopath and a murderous android with revenge on their minds tracking him across the galaxy.

His humanity has been eroded by the amount of time he has been linked to an AI network, and his last mission also haunts him.

However, Cormac has more than enough problems of his own. Thousands of people were killed in the explosion, and the blast obliterated an entire terraforming project, so Earth Central Security suspects sabotage. It stars the legendary investigator, Agent Ian Cormac, who is assigned to figure out why a portal to other planets exploded. Gridlinked is the first novel in the Agent Cormac series by Neal Asher. The self-aware android would prefer being left alone by the humans, so it can figure out who it is, but then a neighboring mission goes dark, and it has to help the scientists discover what's going on. This leads to a situation where a team of scientists conducting surface tests on a distant planet ends up with a scornful android that has hacked its own governor module. Unfortunately, contracts are based on the lowest bids and not safety. Any planetary missions that are undertaken must first be approved and supplied by the Company, which also provides security androids to protect the exploratory teams. The novel is set in the future, where spacefaring is common but dominated by corporations instead of governments.

For more novels where androids play a central role, look at the following books like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? All Systems RedĪll Systems Ready by Martha Wells is the first book in her award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Androids continue to be a fascinating topic in science fiction, and many other authors have based their stories around these humanoid robots. The story features robot servants named androids that are identical to humans, which leads to all kinds of ethical questions about their existence. The 1982 Ridley Scott film, Blade Runner, was based on the novel as well as the 2017 sequel. Dick was first published in 1968 and has been hugely influential. The dystopian science fiction novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K.

Gridlinked by Neal Asher