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The Book of Bots
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781958880418
Publisher: Fairwood Press LLC
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Hugo and Nebula award winning writer James Patrick Kelly has spent the last thirty years thinking about robots. In the twelve stories of The Book of Bots they take many forms. Some look like humans or are embodied in spaceships. One is a house and another is a car. Several exist only in cyberspace. Two are visitors from the future. They are caretakers and lovers, explorers and financial advisors. All have been created to serve, but also have personal agendas that arise from a fierce sense of identity.
Fans of Kelly's long running column in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine will also want to read two new articles included here. The Comedy of Science is a wry tour of the history of robots in science fiction and Robots on Parade 2026 is frank assessment of the current state of robotics and AI.
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