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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....

Hope is Swift by Seanan McGuire (October Daye, #13.1)

HOPE IS SWIFT is a novella included with most editions of THE UNKINDEST TIDE.

TITLE: Hope Is Swift
AUTHOR: Seanan McGuire
PUBLISHER: Daw Books
YEAR: 2019
LENGTH: 53 pages
AGE: Adult
GENRE: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
RECOMMENDED: Yes

Queer Rep Summary: Genderqueer/Nonbinary Secondary Character(s), Trans Minor Character(s).

This is a short and bittersweet story from Raj's perspective, about responsibility, danger, love, and growing up.

CW for grief, kidnapping (backstory), confinement, medical content, car accident.

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A pale woman with dark brown hair and pointed ears stands at the railing of a wooden ship, a dagger loosely clasped in her right hand. An orange sunset glow lights the scene.

 

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