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The Warm Machine by Aimee Cozza

When a robot built for construction work first sees an angular, sleek prototype military robot slink onto the base he's working outside of, he immediately falls in love. The problem is, only anomalous bots understand the concept of love, and the lowly laborbot has not deviated from his default programming once. So he thinks, anyway. When the laborbot is scheduled for decommission, the military bot cannot possibly live without him, and the two bots set out on a path to find the fabled anomalous robot utopia Root. COVER ARTIST: Aimee Cozza PUBLISHER: 9mm Press YEAR: 2024 LENGTH: 196 pages  AGE: Adult GENRE: Science Fiction RECOMMENDED: Highly Queer Rep Summary: The main characters are robots, likely closest to aro/ace but those terms aren't quite applicable. Gender is also not an important factor. THE WARM MACHINE plays with ideas of friendship, connection, and searching for utopia, all through the lens of a construction robot who falls in love at first sight with a military bot....

Animorphs Book 45: The Revelation by K. A. Applegate

Marco’s dad makes a breakthrough and it endangers his life. Marco has to make some difficult decisions quickly and not everything works out as he’d hoped. I used to read this one over and over, especially the scene in the car.‬

I like this one, a lot. It’s definitely a point of no return for the series, something fundamental has changed that cannot be mitigated. To be clear, I mostly like the change, and I consider the changes to come to be good, narratively. This particular installment is bittersweet, mostly good but with an edge to it.

A boy (Marco) turns into an ant

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