Dot.RobotDot.Robot, Dot.Robot:Atomic Swarm, Dot.Robot:Cyber Gold * * * Author| Jason Bradbury Country| United Kingdom Genre| Children's, Thriller fiction Publisher| Puffin Published| 5 February 2009 Media type| Print (Paperback) The Dot.Robot Series is a trilogy of techno-thrillers by Jason Bradbury. The series centres on the characters Jackson Farley, Brooke English, the Kojima Twins and Devlin Lear. The first novel in the trilogy was released on 5 February 2009. Its official website is hosted on a server named in the first novel.[1] ## Series[edit] ### Novels[edit] * Dot.Robot (5 February 2009)[2] * Dot.Robot: Atomic Swarm (7 January 2010) * Dot.Robot: Cyber Gold (7 April 2011) ## Characters[edit] ### Main characters[edit] * Jackson Farley: Jackson Farley is a computer whizz-kid. His favourite computer game is Whisper, which he plays under the alias WizardZombie. He is contacted by Devlin Lear to become a member of MeX, a secret government organisation at the beginning of the first book. * Brooke English: Brooke English is an American daughter of an Engineer. She spends her time working on self-driving cars and other robotic related projects such as Punk.[3][4] * The Kojima twins: The Kojima twins are nine-year-old professional gamers. They have three younger siblings and an overbearing father and mother. They recently won the most prestigious gaming competition in Japan. * Devlin Lear/Mr. Pope: Devlin Lear is a businessman with a ruthless streak.[5] He is the founder of MeX and disappears at the end of the first book, only to reappear in the second. He is revealed to be Jackson's biological father in "Dot.Robot:Atomic Swarm". * Yakimoto: A ruthless Japanese Diamond dealer/gang boss, Yakimoto killed both of Jackson's parents.[5] ### Other characters[edit] * Mr. Farley: Jackson's father is a strict parent who is still upset about the death of his wife several years earlier. * JP English: The father of Brooke English, JP is a professor of robotics at MIT. * Nathaniel Goulman: JP's lab assistant. ## Critical reception[edit] The first novel, Dot.Robot, received generally good reviews with author Eoin Colfer describing it as "The best of a brand new breed of techno-thriller". ## References[edit] * Fantastic fiction page for Dot.Robot ## Notes[edit] 1. ^ Waite, Jonathon (March 15, 2009). "A novel idea: Dot Robot has its own secret website". Retrieved 18 January 2010. 2. ^ Hinton, Chris (22 December 2009). "Review: Dot.Robot". wired.co.uk. Archived from the original on 12 February 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2010. 3. ^ "Jason Bradbury meets a Dot Robot". YouTube. 20 January 2009. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 18 January 2010. 4. ^ "Meet Punk". www.doyouknowanysecrets.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2010. 5. ^ a b "MEX Logbook". www.doyouknowanysecrets.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2010. ## External links[edit] * Official website * Jason Bradbury's blog * Children and Young Adult Literature portal This article about a children's science fiction novel of the 2010s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. | * v * t * e *[v]: View this template *[t]: Discuss this template *[e]: Edit this template