Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume 4

Love, Death + Robots

By: Stant Litore, Siobhan Carroll, Bruce Sterling, John McNichol, Dave Hutchinson, Marc Laidlaw, John Scalzi, Robert Bisi, Andy Lyon, Amanda J. Spedding, various

Narrated by: Alex Boyles, Nancy Wu, Antony Ferguson, Erika Mori, Josh Innerst, Tim Campbell, Joe Hempel, Gary Tiedemann, Hannah Curtis

The nine narrative episodes of Volume Four of the Emmy® Award-winning Netflix Original series Love, Death + Robots.

Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.

Introduction by John Scalzi, with stories by John Scalzi, Stant Litore, Siobhan Carroll, Bruce Sterling, John McNichol, Dave Hutchinson, Marc Laidlaw, and Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon.

Full contents:

Introduction by John Scalzi
“The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur” by Stant Litore
“For He Can Creep” by Siobhan Carroll
“Spider Rose” by Bruce Sterling
“How Zeke Got Religion at 20,000 Feet” by John McNichol
“Golgotha” by Dave Hutchinson
“400 Boys” by Marc Laidlaw
“The Other Large Thing” by John Scalzi
“Close Encounters of the Mini-Kind” by Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon
“Your Smart Appliances Talk About You Behind Your Back” by John Scalzi

©2025 Anthology © 2025 Cohesion Press. Stories © Individual Authors (P)2025 Blackstone Publishing

A few hits a few misses.

Overall worth a listen though only a couple of the stories would be worth a relisten. For me that was the Bruce sterling stories( LDR should do all the stories from that IP) and how zeke found religion.

Go with the Netflix format for this volume

Both the writing and the narration are a step down from the previous volumes. There were a few shorts with good concepts elevated to pretty good when adapted to the onscreen format.

For example, Scalzi’s Small Appliance bits, in addition to being available in other Audible collections, are hilarious onscreen. Bonus: the onscreen format elminates the annoyance of narrators saying “he said” and “she said” all the time.

I’m fine having gotten this on sale, but I’m sensing diminishing returns and would hesitate if volume 5 came out tomorrow.