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• Introduction (We, Robots) • (2020) • essay by Simon Ings
• It's Alive! • (2020) • essay by Simon Ings
• The Golem Runs Amuck • (2020) • short story by Chayim Bloch
• Fandom for Robots • (2017) • short story by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• Moxon's Master • (1910) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of A Night at Moxon's 1899)
• The Land Ironclads • (1903) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• The Revolt of the Machines • (2014) • short story by Emile Goudeau (trans. of La révolte des machines 1891)
• Microcosmic God • (1941) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Ancient Engines • (1999) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• Beachcomber • (1980) • short story by Mike Resnick
• Non Serviam • [The Apocryphs] • (1979) • novelette by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
  (trans. of Arthur Dobb: "Non serviam" 1971) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• Adam Robots • (2009) • short story by Adam Roberts
• Solar Plexus • (1941) • short story by James Blish
• I Made You • (1954) • short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• The Bell Tower • (2008) • short fiction by Herman Melville (variant of The Bell-Tower 1855)
• First to Serve • (1954) • short story by Algis Budrys
• Malak • (2010) • short story by Peter Watts
• The Toymaker's Daughter • (2017) • short story by Arundhati Hazra
• Following the Money • (2020) • essay by Simon Ings
• Nightmare Number Three • (1935) • poem by
  Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet
• With Folded Hands • [Humanoids] • (1948) • novelette by Jack Williamson (variant of With Folded Hands ... 1947)
• Full Report of The Second Meeting of The Mudfog Association for The Advancement of Everything Section B - Display of Models and Mechanical Science • (1837) • short fiction by Charles Dickens
• Fully Automated Nostalgia Capitalism • (2017) • short fiction by Dan Grace
• The Man-Ufactory • (1877) • short fiction by Frederick B. Perkins
• A Robot Walks Into a Bar • (2020) • short fiction by Romie Stott (variant of A Robot Walks Into a Bar ... 2012)
• Men of Iron • (1940) • short story by Guy Endore
• A Bad Day for Sales • (1953) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant • (2017) • short story by Rachael K. Jones
• The Reading Machine • (1947) • short story by Morris Bishop
• Baby H. P. • (2003) • short story by Juan José Arreola (trans. of Baby H. P. 1952)
• The Steam-Driven Boy • (1972) • short story by John Sladek
• Comfort Me, My Robot • (1955) • short story by Robert Bloch
• A Logic Named Joe • (1946) • short story by Murray Leinster
• Mika Model • (2016) • short story by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Caspar D. Luckinbill, What Are You Going to Do? • (2016) • short story by Nick Wolven
• The Next Scene • (2016) • short story by Robert Reed
• Overseer and Servant • (2020) • essay by Simon Ings
• Old Robots Are the Worst • (1989) • poem by Bruce Boston
• Virtuoso • (1953) • short story by Herbert Goldstone
• Saying Goodbye to Yang • (2010) • short story by Alexander Weinstein
• The Perfect Egg • (2011) • short story by Tania Hershman
• The Caretaker • (2011) • short story by Ken Liu
• Hi Ho Cherry-O • (2018) • short story by Becky Hagenston
• Robot • (2012) • short story by Helena Bell
• Rosie Cleans House • (2017) • short story by Lauren Fox
• Super-Toys Last All Summer Long • [Supertoys • 1] • (1969) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• Tamagotchi • (2008) • short fiction by Adam Marek
• The Veldt • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• There Will Be School Tomorrow • (1956) • short story by V. E. Thiessen
• Lex • (1959) • short story by W. T. Haggert
• Helen O'Loy • (1938) • short story by Lester del Rey
• The Peacemaker • (2016) • short story by T. S. Bazelli
• Sexy Robot Mom • [Sexy Robots] • (2012) • short story by Sandra McDonald
• I Am Crying All Inside • (1969) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• Changing Places • (2020) • essay by Simon Ings
• Transformer • (2020) • short fiction by GPT-2
• The Man • [Jackaroo] • (2012) • short story by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley]
• The Birds of Isla Mujeres • (2003) • short story by Steven Popkes
• That Laugh • (2009) • short story by Patrick O'Leary
• Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance • (2017) • short story by Tobias S. Buckell
• Dolly Sodom • (1996) • short story by John Kaiine
• The Robot Who Looked Like Me • (1973) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• Bokko-Chan • (1963) • short story by
  星新一^?Hoshi Shin'ichi
  Hoshi Shinichi
  (trans. of
  ボッコちゃん^?Bokkochan
  ) [as by Shinichi Hoshi]
• The Dancing Partner • (1928) • short story by Jerome K. Jerome
• Satisfaction • (2018) • short story by Nicholas Sheppard
• Nanonauts! In Battle with Tiny Death-Subs! • (2014) • short story by Ian McDonald
• Masked • (2016) • short story by Rich Larson
• The Turing Test • (2002) • short story by Chris Beckett
• Self Portrait • (1951) • novelette by Bernard Wolfe
• Maneki Neko • (1998) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman • (1965) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• The Machine Stops • (1909) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• All Hail The New Flesh • (2020) • essay by Simon Ings
• The Hammer • (1910) • poem by Carl Sandburg
• Good to Go • (2012) • short fiction by Liz Jensen
• Tender • (2014) • short story by Rachel Swirsky
• Masks • (1968) • short story by Damon Knight
• Hostbods • (2020) • short story by T. L. Huchu (variant of HostBods 2014) [as by Tendai Huchu]
• Scanners Live in Vain • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1950) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• Musée de l'Âme Seule • (2014) • short story by E. Lily Yu
• The Winter Market • (1985) • novelette by William Gibson
• The One Who Isn't • (2016) • short story by Ted Kosmatka
• Suicide Coast • (1999) • short story by M. John Harrison
• Memories and Wire • (2014) • short story by Mari Ness
• Ganger (Ball Lightning) • (2000) • short story by Nalo Hopkinson
• Learning to Be Me • (1990) • short story by Greg Egan
• No Woman Born • (1944) • novella by C. L. Moore
• Flight • (2020) • short fiction by Joanna Kavenna
• Praxis • (1985) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• Tongtong's Summer • (2014) • short story by Xia Jia (trans. of
  童童的夏天^?Tongtong de xiatian
  )
• These 5 Books Go 6 Feet Deep • (2018) • short story by Ted Hayden
• Succession • (2020) • essay by Simon Ings
• Darwin Among the Machines • (1863) • essay by Samuel Butler
• Mechanopolis • (2003) • short story by Miguel de Unamuno (trans. of
  Mecanópolis^?Mecanopolis
  1913)
• Big Dave's in Love • (2020) • short fiction by T. D. Edge [as by Terry Edge]
• I, Row-Boat • (2006) • novelette by Cory Doctorow
• Fulfillment • (1951) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• Making the Connections • [The Night of the Storm • 4] • (1975) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• Director X and the Thrilling Wonders of Outer Space • (2017) • short story by Brian Trent
• The Next Move • (2018) • short story by John Cooper Hamilton
• Like You, I Am a System • (2017) • short story by Nathan Hillstrom
• My Favourite Sentience • (2018) • short fiction by Marissa Lingen
• London, Paris, Banana • (2020) • short story by Howard Waldrop (variant of London, Paris, Banana ... 2000)
• Lost Memory • (1952) • short story by Peter Phillips
• Starcrossed • (1973) • short story by George Zebrowski
• The Narrow Road • (2014) • short fiction by Tad Williams
• The Golem • (1955) • short story by Avram Davidson