Return Machine.Love()

Return Machine.Love() is an anthology of three robot-romance stories.

Egregor

After failing to take over the world, a robot overlord settles into a jail cell. The prison holds inmates with cataclysmic powers, including a particular fungal creature whose story the robot wants to learn.

Handle With Care

In a wasteland where scrap is scarce and survival in the outskirts grows harder each day, Owen is caught by unfriendly neighbours while trying to harvest scrap. A mysterious, pointed-eared stranger rescues him, leaving Owen flustered and wondering what is unusual about the stranger.

To Invent Longing

A robot has been online for 84,418 days and considers the world dead, except for a distant woman. Though she is far away, the robot feels something for her, and the feeling is mutual.