Chris Beckett

About The Author

Chris Beckett is a former social worker and lecturer, based in Cambridge. His first novel, The Holy Machine, included, among other robotic things, robot sex workers and a robot messiah. His collection The Turing Test was the winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Award in 2009, and his novel Dark Eden won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2012.

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Books by Chris Beckett

Robots Past & Future Short Stories

Contributions by Brian K. Lowe / Foreword by Chris Beckett

In a world of Electric State, Generative AI and advanced robotics, classic science fiction stories are joined here by new tales from open submissions revealing robots from the past, present and future.

We enjoyed our Robots and AI book so much that we’ve followed up by splitt...

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