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

Love, Death and Robots

By: Amanda J. Spedding - editor, Geoff Brown - editor, Tim Miller, Alastair Reynolds, Claudine Griggs, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Marko Kloos, Peter F. Hamilton, various, Alberto Mielgo, David W. Amendola, Michael Swanwick, Vitaliy Shushko, Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: full cast

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One 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.

Stories and screenplays by Alastair Reynolds, Alberto Mielgo, Claudine Griggs, David W. Amendola, Joe Lansdale, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Kirsten Cross, Marko Kloos, Michael Swanwick, Peter F. Hamilton, Steve Lewis, and Vitaliy Shushko.

Full contents:

Introduction by Tim Miller
“Sonnie’s Edge” by Peter F. Hamilton
“Three Robots” by John Scalzi
“The Witness” by Alberto Mielgo
“Suits” by Steve Lewis
“Sucker of Souls” by Kirsten Cross
“When the Yoghurt Took Over” by John Scalzi
“Beyond the Aquila Rift” by Alastair Reynolds
“Good Hunting” by Ken Liu
“The Dump” by Joe R. Lansdale
“Shape-Shifters” by Marko Kloos
“Helping Hand” by Claudine Griggs
“Fish Night” by Joe R. Lansdale
“Lucky Thirteen” by Marko Kloos
“Zima Blue” by Alistair Reynolds
“Blind Spot” by Vitaliy Shushko
“Ice Age” by Michael Swanwick
“Alternate Histories” by John Scalzi
“The Secret War” by David W. Amendola

The full list of additional narrators includes:

P. J. Ochlan, Julia Eve, Alex Boyles, Joel Simler, Alex Picard, Cary Hite, André Santana, Hillary Huber, Tim Campbell, Nicole Cash, Marcio Catalano, Bradford Hastings, Feodor Chin, Josh Innerst, and Gary Tiedemann.

©2021 Anthology © 2021 Cohesion Press. Stories © Individual Authors (P)2025 Blackstone Publishing

Maybe one decent story

The one decent story about the robot artist is very late 60s early 70s genre and it's well written just the topic is basically find happiness in menial labor and don't try for anything better. Kind of not the best message. The rest honestly are a waste of time

The best scifi in a long while.

Never having watched the series, I don't have that to compare with, but, I have to say, this is the most fun I have had reading a scifi anthology like this in a long while. It is very reminiscent of classic Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction magazines, from like the 80s, and early 90s. The diverse variety and excellent writing showcased here kept it fun and unpredictable all the way through with enough action and kick to keep you reading on through. I loved it so much, I've got volumes 2 and 3 to start now as soon as I finish this review. The narrators here helped the experience become a blockbuster piece of work that will be hard to top. I can't name everybody here, but you guys, every one of you, made this a phenomenal reading experience. Thank you!! One happy reader here. Thanks again. Enjoy guy, and happy reading!!

A solid supplement to the series.

Narration is fair to good. Reveals more details to the series. Would recommend to fans of the show.

Good collection and interesting comparison

I really enjoyed season 1 of “Love, Death, & Robots” and enjoyed hearing the text version of the stories. You get to see what was left on the cutting room floor to hit the Netflix runtimes. Honestly, I come away impressed with how well they got to the heart of the stories. Still, nice to get to the fullest versions. I’m not just saying that because a robot made me. *blink* *blink* *blink*

Great collection but some were better than others

Big fan of the Netflix series, especially this season and wanted to look at the source material. Was not disappointed. Suits, Sonnies Edge, Secret War and Marlo Kloos stories were standouts for me as was beyond the Aquila drift. Would recommend this collection to anyone.