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Explore captivating short stories encompassing Robot and indulge in the rich narratives of this curated collection. Immerse yourself in a world of imagination.
Nov 6, 2014 · Most importantly, plenty of them can be found online for free. For our inaugural round-up of interesting fiction from around the Internet, we've collated four unique tales about artificial ...
- Cassandra Khaw
- Crier’s War by Nina Varela
- Cinder by Marissa Meyer
- The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg
- The Similars by Rebecca Hanover
- Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
- Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray
- The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid
- Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie
- Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
The complex relationship between Automae and the human race makes this a truly revolutionary read. After the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, designed to be the playthings of royals, usurped their owners’ estates and bent the human race to their will. Now Ayla, a human servant rising in the ranks at the House of the Sovereign,...
Everyone’s favorite resident cyborg is a perfect example of why we love books with robots! Cinder, a gifted mechanic in New Beijing, is also a cyborg. She’s reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s sudden illness. But when her life becomes entwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she finds herself at the centre of a violent struggl...
This story is Disneyland meets I, Robotwith a very sinister twist. Welcome to the Kingdom… where ‘Happily Ever After’ isn’t just a promise, but a rule. Glimmering like a jewel behind its gateway, The Kingdom is an immersive fantasy theme park where guests soar on virtual dragons, castles loom like giants, and bioengineered species—formerly extinct—...
Clones are both creepy and a little fascinating. But a clone that looks exactly like your dead BFF? That would be truly terrifying. When six clones join Emmaline’s prestigious boarding school, she must confront the heartbreak of seeing her dead best friend’s face each day in class. The Similars are all anyone can talk about at the elite Darkwood Ac...
A genre-bending thrill ride, this one has everything we love. It’s one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It’s quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than p...
Defy the Starsmakes you think about what it means to be human. If you want a great slow-burn filled with action and adventure, pick this one up now. She’s a soldier – Noemi Vidal is willing to risk anything to protect her planet, Genesis, including her own life. To their enemies on Earth, she’s a rebel. He’s a machine – Abandoned in space for years...
The Prince and The Pauper, but make it sci-fi. Trust us—you’ll be absorbed into this story in no time. Nemesis is a Diabolic. Created to protect a galactic Senator’s daughter, Sidonia. There’s no one Nemesis wouldn’t kill to keep her safe. But when the power-mad Emperor summons Sidonia to the galactic court as a hostage, there is only one way for N...
What would you do to become a Scela, a cyborg soldier? A robotic romance with tons of heart, you’ll fall in love with this story yourself. Aisha Un-Haad would do anything for her family. When her brother contracts a plague, she knows her janitor’s salary isn’t enough to fund his treatment. So she volunteers to become a Scela, a mechanically enhance...
Seriously, give us all the sci-fi fairytale retellings and we’ll be happy for a long time. Nicolette’s awful stepsisters call her “Mechanica” to demean her, but the nickname fits: she learned to be an inventor at her mother’s knee. Her mom is gone now, though, and the Steps have turned her into a servant in her own home. But on her sixteenth birthd...
Two exes who have to save the world? A mysterious AI that might be ready to kill them at any moment? We’re all about it. This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an...
Nov 10, 2023 · This story is something of a kitchen-sink piece (blues-playing robot, a future where sentient robots don’t have the same rights as humans, the court case, the future-tech prison break, etc.), and the internal logic of the story is non-existent in places (see above and below).
- Rachel Brittain
- All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. If you’re looking to fall in love with curmudgeonly robot full of sarcasm, look no further. This is one of my all-time favorite science fiction series and one my Dune and Star Wars loving dad has been listening to on repeat for basically two years straight now.
- Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee. A painter is blackmailed into joining a top-secret government program in this standalone SFF novel from sci-fi master Yoon Ha Lee.
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. This more philosophical take on robots follows an Artificial Friend who’s seen nothing but the sun shining through the store window.
- We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen. On a spaceship far from home, a psychologist watches over a human and android crew. The rest of her crewmates tolerate their mechanical companions at best, and treat them with disdain at worst.
Jan 14, 2015 · Rossum’s Universal Robots, The Wind-up Girl and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, are all good books, but the synthetic characters in them are not robots, they’re simply artificially created and enhanced humans, similar to full-grown clones.
To ready us for the inevitable, here are 100 of the best short stories ever written – most of them by humans – about robots and artificial minds. Read them while you can, learn from them, and make your preparations...
