Overview
Greg Pak's four-story anthology explores human relationships with robot babies, office androids, toy robots and digital immortality.
ASFR Content
The strongest ASFR material is in 'My Robot Baby' and 'Machine Love'. A couple is tested with an artificial infant before adoption, while Archie is a humanoid office android who is repeatedly left active overnight, becomes low on power and forms a connection with another office android.
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ASFR Scenes
A couple receives a robot baby as an adoption test
The prospective parents are required to care for an artificial infant before being approved to adopt a human child.
Archie is left switched on after work
The office technician forgets to turn Archie off, allowing the android to wander the empty building after completing his assigned work.
Archie runs low on power
Repeated overnight activity leaves Archie too low on power to perform his office work normally the next morning.
Archie is shut down and asks to meet the other android
The technician powers Archie off, but first realises the robot is trying to communicate his wish to meet the artificial worker across the street.