Robot Warriors

Hyperspace High #3

by Zac Harrison

It's competition time at Hyperspace High as the students build robots to compete in the annual Robot Warriors contest. John and Kaal are in with a chance of winning, but will competition get in the way of friendship?

Genres: Science Fiction

284 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2013

Reviews

[Ayush Guhan · Rating 5 out of 5]

The spectacular book Hyperspace High: Robot Warriors, by Zac Harrison has an amazing adventure waiting. John Riley has to make a robot in a competition with the whole school. This would be a hard challenge because John has never made a robot and his alien classmates are far more advanced with technology. Read the book to watch John overcoming his great challenges through a mind blowing adventure.

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Robot Warriors is book 3 in the Hyperspace High series, a fun, page turner. This book is better than the first 3. Instead of a near-miss-disaster happening outside of the school, students compete in robotics competition. Any students that like building robots, robot warrior competitions on TV, or MIT's competitions will find this book a lot of fun. Like the other books in this series, it is a great selection for reluctant readers.

[Michael B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hope He Does Another Series

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This series is extremely easy, turn-your-brain-off kind of reading. I like the characters a lot and think the setting of Hyperspace High has a lot of potential, but frankly, these books have some of the laziest worldbuilding I’ve ever seen.

How do classes work—there are more than 1000 kids, but John’s class only has about 18 kids in it, so are we talking classes like how they work in elementary school? How bad is the education that the contest finals consisted of all first-years? What does John’s actual schedule of classes look like? How come the other kids know more about what’s going on at the school than John even though the others are all first-years too? We don’t even know how old John is, and that’s driving me crazy.

(A big disappointment here is I bet if the author read Bruce Coville’s My Teacher Glows in the Dark, he’d have a great example of how this kind of work can be done even in such a short story. Like I said, serious potential that’s not being utilized.)

Interestingly, John is probably English, considering he was going to go to a boarding school in a place called Derbyshire, but other than that, this book reads as entirely American.

[Morandia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series keeps getting better and better! 100% recommended

[Kritika Yadav · Rating 4 out of 5]

SLAYEDD!!! LOVED IT!!

[River · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a fun book! I read this with my son and absolutely LOVED it! The story was great and engaging. We laughed through the whole book! It was entertaining seeing John hiding from his parents and dealing with the students.