An examination as to how a robot capable of near-perfectly mimicking a human being would impact society.
After a decade in hiding, Dr. Richard Danson has returned to unveil his greatest achievement: the SHEM (Synthetic Humanoid Emulation Machine), a robot that looks, talks, and is as intelligent as a human being. But the public eye is skeptical of Danson's creation. What would people do when forced to co-exist with a strange new race on the same level as them? Fear of the SHEM becomes widespread, and the machines become widely vilified by a society that's become worse and worse in retaliation. Danson is acting more unstable with each passing day, and one of his robots has confessed to an emotion she was never programmed with!
In the third book in the Ember Reign series, the android Orion is missing and the spaceship Orion is malfunctioning. The MIBs are hot on the trail of Megan and her friends. As Megan and her crew try to figure out how to fix Orion, an unknown spacecra
