GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY reviews

I’m delighted to find my collection GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY reviewed in the Financial Times today! Thanks so much to James Lovegrove for his very generous assessment.

Other very positive reviews of the collection have appeared in recent days, too.

Ginger Nuts of Horror concluded: “Whether fairytale, sci-fi, or Dennis Potter-shaded drama, there’s a lot of innovation here and the one overriding quality to Major’s prose is surely that it’s far from… robotic (ha!).”

Runalong the Shelves said: “This is an excellent collection playing with the concept of the robot and his long history in myth and science fiction with a lot to think about as to how they reflect us. Inventive, funny, scary and always intelligent this is a fascinating book to dive into. Highly recommended!”

I’ll keep adding new reviews to my Great Robots of History page, where you can also find purchase details.

Publication day! GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY

GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY is published today! Here I am, celebrating the only way I know how: with an awkward half-smile.

The collection contains 16 tales of robots and robot-like figures from history and myth, and many of the stories are quite weird and in unusual formats. Eleven were previously published in venues such as Interzone, Nightscript and Shoreline of Infinity, and ‘The Brazen Head of Westinghouse’ won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction in 2024. Six stories are new to this collection – so today’s also a milestone in terms of publication of the most new short fiction I’ve ever released at one time.

You can find out more about GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY here.