Bots

by Nicole M. Taylor

Edmond West, a brilliant MIT drop-out, is convinced that humans will never move beyond their cruelty. He sets out to create a new kind of humanoid robot, to be exploited so that people no longer have to be.Edmonds quest to make a more sophisticated robot is successful, leading to something unexpected, and nearly divine. Now, a growing population of this new species of "Bots" is threatening the concept of what it is to be human. Has Edmond saved the world or created a new class of victims?

208 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2015

About the author

Nicole M. Taylor was an only child, born deep in the corn-ears of rural Michigan where she honed her talents for being supercilious, eating pop-tarts and making up strange fictional situations.

Today, she lives in San Jose with her husband and a small fetal alien named Magoo. She writes speculative fiction about witches, ghosts, robots, reptoid aliens and pianists. She also works occasionally as a ghostwriter, collaborating on everything from historical memoirs to medical thrillers.

Her first YA book series, Bots, is available from Epic Press in August, 2015.