Eating Robots
and other stories
Published on 31. May 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
138 pages
978-1-78132-622-0 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of `ten-minute' stories are the perfect length for your commute or a thoughtful cup of coffee:
The future is ours and it's up for grabs...
Step into a high-tech vision of the future with author of 'Quantum Confessions' and 'Fluence': Stephen Oram. Featuring health-monitoring mirrors, tele-empathic romances and limb-repossessing bailiffs, 'Eating Robots' explores the collision of utopian dreams and twisted realities in a world where humanity and technology are becoming ever more intertwined.
Sometimes funny, often unsettling, and always with a word of warning, these thirty sci-fi shorts will stay with you long after you've turned the final page.
The future is ours and it's up for grabs...
Step into a high-tech vision of the future with author of 'Quantum Confessions' and 'Fluence': Stephen Oram. Featuring health-monitoring mirrors, tele-empathic romances and limb-repossessing bailiffs, 'Eating Robots' explores the collision of utopian dreams and twisted realities in a world where humanity and technology are becoming ever more intertwined.
Sometimes funny, often unsettling, and always with a word of warning, these thirty sci-fi shorts will stay with you long after you've turned the final page.
Reviews / Votes
"Eating Robots is a strong collection that melds together coherently into a near-future dystopian vision that extrapolates upon and slyly comments on trends and tendencies today. Like all good Science Fiction should." - Allen Ashley, British Fantasy Society Short Story Competition judgeMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
164 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78132-622-0 (9781781326220)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Stephen Oram writes science fiction and is lead curator for near-future fiction at Virtual Futures. He's been a hippie-punk, religious-squatter and an anarchist-bureaucrat; he thrives on contradictions. He enjoys working collaboratively with scientists and future-tech people - they do the science he does the fiction. He is published in several anthologies and has two published novels, 'Quantum Confessions' and 'Fluence'. His collection of sci-fi shorts, 'Eating Robots and Other Stories', was described by the 'Morning Star' as one of the top radical works of fiction in 2017.