Automatic: Anthology of Robots by A.K. Meek
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Overview: Prepare for the Singularity
A hardened detective is disturbed by the first android murder…
A cyborg questions his own existence as he prepares for war on the moon…
Two children realize nightmares aren’t just for the night…
Abigail wants to get surgery to look like her favorite robot rock star…
Malfunctioning androids can become a nuisance for a city…
A week old robot adjusts to her emotional nature…
Androids are the social elite; they’re the rock stars, the A-list actors, the CEOs. They’re the modern day gods, and everyone wants to be like them. And with emotion chip upgrades, they’re more like us than ever before.
Eleven short stories tell of an uncertain future with robots living at our sides. It’s Bicentennial Man and A.I. Artificial Intelligence uploaded into one mainframe.
Genre: Science Fiction
Darkly Cries the Digital
In the Deep South, modern-day technology blends with eternal superstition for a family that suffers a tragic loss; the death of their ten-year old son. And now, driven by grief, unable to accept the whirlwind circumstance outside of his control, a business executive makes a fateful decision that severs what remains of his already-broken family.
Carnival of Robots and Roses
A young New Orleans boy attends his first jazz funeral. And it just happens to be that of Masanori Nishimora, father of the modern android and CEO of Nishimora Intelligence. Unwittingly, the boy stumbles upon the fine line between life and death that Nishimora tried so hard to erase.
Empathy Box
John Harden, a seasoned detective noted for his no nonsense attitude, is disturbed by his investigation of the first android murder.
Now the path of a man who has spent a career dealing with the worst of mankind intersects with a humanoid who wants nothing more than to experience the worst.
Jimmy Dugan is Chasing Spiders
Androids are not unbreakable. Jimmy Dugan finds out the hard way. Unfortunately, when androids break, they break hard.
Last Train to Mecca
A derailed train and trapped, dying passengers. Two humanoids headed to a depot facility for upgrade are able to help, each driven by divergent views of their societal position.
Abigail’s New Face
For her Quinceanera, Abigail wants to get her face surgically altered to resemble her favorite android. Her father, a second-generation American and a minimum-wage janitor, wants to give his only daughter everything, except for the one thing she desires most. Once he caves in to her demands, he pays for it in more ways than he could ever dream.
This Year’s Model
The International Consortium of Ethical Machines declares Emancipation for androids.
Andrea, an eighteen-year-old Nishimora-Dynamo robot, has been on the showroom floor for only a few days, having been uncrated only a short week ago.
Now, as she finds herself thrust into an unfamiliar city, she struggles to understand her electronic nature amidst an ocean of unelectronic human nature.
The Magnolia Killer
Jeremy witnesses his neighborhood being overrun by corporate-sponsored fight houses. Almost overnight his home turf becomes a hot tourist destination where you can scrap with androids, if you’re willing to pay the price. Jeremy, upset by the change, isn’t willing to pay that price.
Charm Bracelet
In a future world of technology and automata, man wants to be like the machines. But man doesn’t want to be a cyborg. Because when you’re a cyborg, you’re no longer considered human. That also means you have only one function: to defend the United States’ political interests in war.
Elijah, a twenty-something new husband, finds himself as an unintentional volunteer for Dynamo’s Cyborg Program. As he fits into his new role as a trained killer, he learns how simple hatred can cost so much heartache. And he also realizes that who and what he once was he’ll never be again.
Queen of Heaven
A poetic tribute to the future battleground of mankind, the world’s Valhalla, BattleSat.
Factory Setting
Deborah, suffering from Alzheimer’s, is the first resident of Antebellum Estates Nursing Home to get a Dynamo Serv-O-Bot to care for her. Due to a factory configuration, the robot whisks her away on a journey that leads them from the rest home through Lil Hell, which is a fitting name for the impoverished suburban neighborhood.
Cicada Seventeen
Nightmares don’t save themselves for when you’re old enough to comprehend them, to make sense of them. Some are as plain as a lazy day, to be seen by all. They take advantage of youthfulness and childish dreams.
And in a small Texas town, a brother and sister learn these things, and also that not all nightmares hide in the night; some are done in the light of day, right under your nose.
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