CCLaP Publishing
143 pages, $23.48

Review by Corey Pentoney

The world has been torn asunder by some untold event, and the entire human race has gone extinct.  All that stands on the face of the Earth are ruins and robots.  Robots of all shapes and sizes, makes and models, colors and consistencies wander the streets—or just sit around—as they have lost their purpose: to build things for humans, to take care of humans, to do what they were programmed.  Except for Robot, who finds the world too quiet now, the robots seem happier without humans.  Robot misses them, their noises, their smells; and not only humans but the plant and animal life that once lived on planet Earth.  “Robot missed the toilet sound that was the human race,” we are told.  This is where Sad Robot Stories drops the reader, and it is Robot’s adventure that we follow. Continue reading →