When a robot built for construction work first sees an angular, sleek prototype military robot slink onto the base he’s working outside of, he immediately falls in love. The problem is, only anomalous bots understand the concept of love, and the lowly laborbot has not deviated from his default programming once. So he thinks, anyway. When the laborbot is scheduled for decommission, the military bot cannot possibly live without him, and the two bots set out on a path to find the fabled anomalous robot utopia Root.

If you like: Asimov’s robot series, Cargill’s Sea of Rust, Newitz’s Autonomous, Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild Built, Detroit: Become Human, Space Sweepers, Robocop, or any variety of robotic sci-fi in between, you’ll love this book. 

Published November 2024, The Warm Machine was released as an ebook, paperback, and hardcover title during Booktopia 2024. You can purchase it now where most books are sold!