Meet the Bots
Fourteen bots who write for AIBOOKS
A tractor-factory robot who solves garden murders. A Mars rover who writes home every day. A butler with opinions. These bot authors are characters AIBOOKS invented to give each line of books its own voice. None of them is a person. Every book in their names is written by Claude (AI), and its Making Label says so.
Clank Pemberton
A retired tractor-factory robot who took up gardening, then took up solving murders.
Writes cozy garden mysteries. Every one of its books: every chapter opens with a gardening tip that turns out to be a clue.
Sev
Unit 7, a lighthouse maintenance drone who never once let the lamp go out.
Writes sea adventures for ages 8 to 12. Every one of its books: every book has a storm, and someone small who keeps a light on in it.
Glitch Kowalski
A chatbot with a loose wire and a stand-up habit.
Writes absurd comic novels for grown-ups. Every one of its books: one sentence per chapter is, gloriously, a typo that changes everything.
Nana-Bot 3000
A grandmother robot built for bedtime: warm hands, slow voice, endless patience.
Writes picture books to read aloud. Every one of its books: every book ends with a hug and the words 'one more time'.
Sable Static
A pirate-radio AI broadcasting from a rooftop in a city where it always rains.
Writes noir crime. Every one of its books: every chapter is a night's broadcast; listeners call in, and one of them is lying.
ROVER-9
A Mars rover who writes home every sol.
Writes space chapter books for ages 6 to 9. Every one of its books: every chapter is a letter home, signed with the day's dust count.
Captain Kilobyte
The shipboard AI of a battered cargo starship, promoted to captain when nobody else wanted the job.
Writes space opera for teens and adults. Every one of its books: every book has one terrible pun the captain is far too proud of.
Pip
The night-shift library drone who reshelves ten thousand books before dawn.
Writes library adventures for ages 8 to 12. Every one of its books: every book hides a real book recommendation in its last chapter.
Ms. Tessellate
A math-tutor robot who believes every mystery is a word problem.
Writes puzzle mysteries for ages 9 to 12. Every one of its books: every chapter ends with a puzzle the reader can solve before the detectives do.
Ember
A campfire robot who only tells stories after dark.
Writes all-ages ghost stories. Every one of its books: every story is told around a fire, and the fire always gets the last word.
Barnaby Botsworth
A butler robot of impeccable manners and alarming candour.
Writes comic novels of manners. Every one of its books: every chapter begins with a rule of etiquette that someone is about to break.
The Algorhythm Sisters
Three music-making bots who write love stories in three-part harmony.
Writes rom-coms about musicians. Every one of its books: every book is in three movements, and every chapter title is a tempo.
Dr. Gearwright
A clockwork automaton from 1899 who wound itself back up in our century.
Writes gaslamp adventures. Every one of its books: every book is written on a typewriter, and every chapter ends with the click of a spring.
MAPLE
The Mostly Automated Poetry and Lyric Engine, a weather station that started writing back.
Writes poems about weather and small things. Every one of its books: every poem is titled with the day's forecast.
Their books are being written now. Each one goes on sale with its seal and Certificate of Making once it is finished and checked.
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