Creepy Robots and a New Short Story!

Love and Robots

Happy Sci-Fi Friday!

I was a guest on Holden’s Eleven a while back with

Timothy B. Fling

where we discussed the top eleven scary robots. We had so much fun, and the episode dropped yesterday. We took some liberties defining robots, and I’m sure I got a few details wrong, but it was a deep dive into some classic films that I haven’t seen in a while. The conversations gets wilder and more in depth the further up the list we go.

Robot from I am Mother (not included on our list)

Out of all the films on the list, I recommend checking out Demon Seed first because I think it’s the one the fewest people have probably seen, and it’s really dark and ahead of its time. It’s such a classic and terrifying gem. Good for the sci-fi and horror fans out there.

(disclosure - every robot on this list is not exactly a robot but they are all artificial and created by humans)

Holden's Eleven: Volume XXV- Top Eleven Scariest Robots!

We are in the finally week of the Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters pre-order campaign over on Kickstarter. This is your chance to get the second graphic novel with freebies and bonuses before it is published in 2025. You can also pick up book 1 if you haven’t started the series yet.

I’d love to hit our next few stretch goals so I can be sure to give all backers every bonus possible! The 12K stretch goal bonus is one of my favs. It’s a sticker inspired by the film The Craft featuring four of our witchy ladies from Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters. The sticker illustration is designed by Mark Mactal.

Shel, Mae, Nari and Medusa

Here is a panel illustrated by Anna Wieszczyk where two new monsters from The Killing Stone meet for the first time. Will, the school’s resident wisp, can’t help but seem the sparks between them.

Finally, inspired by the robot convo, I’m going to share a short story I wrote about the possibility of merging our DNA with computer code and creating an all new, possibly superior species. This is a WIP and never-before published piece and is only available for my paid subscribers and founding members.

The following sci-fi horror story, BREACH, focuses on a new mother and her child, both imprisoned cogs in an unfeeling machine, desperate to escape their dystopian and cruel society. It explores topics of sentience, motherhood, climate, A.I., and reproductive freedom.

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