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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 paperback It'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?

The thrilling and hilarious sequel 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

En robot som aldri har stilt spørsmål ved reglene, et menneske som ikke burde eksistere, en reise som kommer til å forandre alt... I en ikke så altfor fjern fremtid har robotene utryddet menneskene, og den tolv år gamle roboten XR_935 synes det er helt greit. Uten menneskene er det ingen kriger, ingen forurensning, ingen kriminalitet. Hvert medlem av samfunnet har et formål, og alt går glatt og effektivt. Helt til den dagen XR oppdager noe umulig: Menneskejenta Emma. Hele livet har XR blitt fortalt at mennesker er onde og at verden er et bedre sted uten dem. Men Emma virker ikke ond - hun virker redd. Og hun trenger hjelp. Det siste mennesket er en humoristisk, spennende og gripende historie om vennskap, teknologi og om å utfordre det bestående uansett hvilke konsekvenser det får. Den handler ikke bare om hva det vil si å være en robot - den handler om hva det vil si å være en venn.

The story of a boy and his imaginary friend¿told by the imaginary friend Zach should¿ve outgrown his imaginary friend by now. He knows this. He¿s 11, long past the days when kids are supposed to go on epic make-believe adventures with their invisible friends. But after the death of his father five years ago, all Zach wanted was an escape from the real world. So his imaginary friend, Shovel, hasn¿t faded away like the other kids¿ have. Their imaginary friendship grew stronger. But now Zach¿s in middle school, and things are getting awkward. His best friend ditched him for a cooler crowd. His classmates tease him in the hallways. He still misses his dad. Reality is the worst. Which is why Zach makes regular visits to a fantasy world with Shovel. But is Zach¿s overactive imagination helping him deal with loss or just pushing people away? Poignant, humorous, and breathtaking, Imaginary is an inventive story of friendship, loss and growing up . . . as only an imaginary friend could tell it.