If you loved how XR_935 goes from by-the-book bot to Emma’s fierce protector, you’ll click with Cog. Here, a learning-optimized robot breaks out to find the human who raised him, forming a scrappy team of bots along the way. Like XR_935 shielding Emma while rethinking his directives, Cog discovers that real “programming” comes from empathy, choice, and the friends who stick by you.

You watched XR_935 question its orders to save Emma and redefine what ‘being good’ means. In A Closed and Common Orbit, an AI named Sidra wakes in a body and, with help from Pepper and Blue, learns to live beyond hard-coded limits. It’s the same heart you felt when XR_935 risked everything for Emma—only here the focus is an AI’s inner life, found family, and the choice to be kind.

As XR_935 and Emma trek through a ruined world toward a human sanctuary, The City of Ember sends Lina and Doon racing to decipher old instructions and escape their failing underground city. That same pulse of discovery and courage—risking the unknown for a chance at light—drives both journeys.

If the high-stakes dash where XR_935 hustles Emma past patrols to reach safety hooked you, Mars Evacuees will too. Alice Dare and her friends wind up stranded on Mars and have to cross hostile terrain—guided by a hilariously literal robot goldfish—to survive alien threats and find help. It’s the same propulsive, get-to-the-safe-zone energy.

You enjoyed how The Last Human kept things bright—XR_935 cracking rules to protect Emma, the two finding warmth and laughs even when the world seemed lost. The True Meaning of Smekday pairs Tip with an alien named J.Lo on a cross-country trek to find Tip’s mom, mixing danger with goofy resilience and a lot of heart.