Beautiful Machines

To what desperate lengths will an android go to fit in?How will we cope with boredom after the machines solve all our problems?Can a robot go insane? Is Artificial Intelligence an existential threat? Are thinking machines our friends? Our enemies? Or both? In these pages, you will encounter machines that laugh and cry and kill and make love and write bad poetry. You will meet robots that dwell in that uncanny valley wherein humans and machines share a common, existential crisis. About the Author: Seth Chambers spent much of his formative years happily engrossed in the works of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Heinlein, Alfred Bester, and numerous other science fiction masters. Seth is the author of What Rough Beasts, Little Bird, and Beautiful Machines. His novella, "In Her Eyes," was a nominee for the Sturgeon award and an honoree of the James Tiptree award. Seth lives in the Chicago area and can be contacted directly at SethChambersAuthor@gmail.com