Books

From HAL 9000 to Alien’s MUTHER to Trek’s Cmdr. Data, from Heinlein’s Mycroft Holmes to Asimov’s R. Daneel Olivaw to Ellison’s AM, I’ve always been deeply into AI, since my early teens (and before that, there was the Lost in Space Robot and the Batcomputer).

When I started writing, I didn’t hesitate to introduce AI and robots into my own work –...

In this, his first collection of all-original short fiction since Shadows of Shadows (2014), Scott Robinson ventures across the stars, back to the Upper Paleolithic, into the mind of an artificial superintelligence, and beyond the edge of madness:

The Only * Solipsist * Skeleton 17 * Selene, Receding * Medallion * The Calling * The Keeper of the...

I remember, as a kid, reading Ray Bradbury in study hall, at Darlington Junior High School, one of those old brick fortresses with high ceilings and long windows and thick dark oak stair banisters, like something out of Hoosiers. It was in Indiana, not much different from the small-town Illinois that Bradbury grew up in.

But I digress: in study...

This collection of Robinson’s longer stories includes excursions across the stars, back through time, into the limits of AI, and inward to the edge of madness. Gathered herein...

SKELETON 17
THE LOCAL GODS
MEDALLION
DELIVERY BOY
SONG OF AVEYRON
THE KEEPER OF THE CASTLE AT THE END OF TIME
WHEN I WAKED, I CRIED TO DREAM AGAIN

Scott Robinson’s latest collection travels to the far ends of time and space, in pursuit of questions as old as humanity itself:

THE LOCAL GODS - A team of time travelers, stranded in the Paleolithic past, establish themselves as the resident idols of the Cro-Magnons on the African veldt;

MOONLIGHT IN PARIS - An apartment at the top of the Eiffel...