Lee Bacon - Böcker

The thrilling and hilarious sequel to The Last Human takes readers to a world where robots and humans coexist . . . though the peace between them may not last long.It’s been a few months since XR_935 met Emma, a human girl who wasn’t supposed to exist. Robots thought they’d eliminated all humans, but some have survived all these years. Robots and humans now live side by side, and the world is so much better for it. They’ve formed a new society, living together as equals.Even if XR doesn’t always understand humans, it is impressed by their creativity and ingenuity––especially considering all the terrible things that robots did to humans all those years ago. But some humans are not so quick to forgive. A group known as the Machine Breakers has emerged. They won’t stop until they’ve destroyed every robot on earth—and any human who stands in their way.Can XR and Emma stop them? Or could this be the end of the robots—and the world as they know it?Includes fun black-and-white illustrations.Film rights for Lee Bacon's thrilling middle grade novel The Last Human, the companion to Fall of the Robots, have been optioned by Sony Pictures, with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Spider‑Man: Into the Spider‑Verse, Project Hail Mary) attached to develop.

The thrilling and hilarious companion to The Last Human––which is in the works to be a major motion picture from the producers of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse—about a world where robots and humans coexist . . . though the peace between them may not last long—now in paperbackIt’s been a few months now since XR_935 met Emma, a human girl who wasn’t supposed to exist. The robots thought that they’d eliminated all humans, but there were still some clinging to survival, who made it through the war.Now the robots and humans live side by side, and the world is so much better for it. They’ve formed a new society where they live together as equals.Even if XR doesn’t always understand the emotions or the disorder of the human’s settlement, XR is impressed that they somehow always seem to make it work––especially considering all the terrible things that robots did to humans all those years ago. But some humans are not so quick to forget or forgive what the robots did . . . and a group of humans begins to rise up and rebel against the precarious peace that they’ve made.Can XR and Emma quell this danger? Or could this be the end of the robots—and the world—as they know it?

An unlikely friendship. A dangerous voyage. A story about what it means to be human.Humans went extinct thirty years ago. Now the world is ruled by machines. And twelve-year-old robot XR_935 is just fine with that. Without humans around, there is no war, no pollution, no crime. Every member of society has a purpose. Everything runs smoothly and efficiently.Until the day XR discovers something impossible.Until the day XR discovers a twelve-year-old human.