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Love, Death + Robots #3
Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume 4
The nine narrative episodes of Volume Four of the Emmy® award-winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots. Featuring best-selling 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, Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon.
162 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 15, 2025
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May 18, 2025
Bruce Sterling "Spider Rose"
January 25, 2026
More good short sci-fi/dystopian stories here, worthwhile series overall.
February 26, 2026
Scifi short story collection; full range from deep religious to appliances complaining about humans.Love it!
March 15, 2026
Overall this was not nearly as good as volumes 1-3, unfortunately. Wouldn't bother reading it.
#1: The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur 4* - beautiful
#2: For He Can Creep 4* - typical cat story but well done
#3 Spider Rose 3* - good writing but just creepy! Had read this with Schismatrix. Enjoyed his other one Swarm much better (in volume 1 I think)
#4: How Zeke Got Religion at 20,000 Feet 3*
#5: Golgotha 2* - good bones but too short/needed more buildup
#6: 400 Boys 1* - no idea what was going on (might be a reader problem)
#7: The Other Large Thing 2* - bit _too_ typical cat story
#8: Close Encounters of the Mini-Kind 1* - just not my kind of humour
#9: Your Smart Appliances Talk About You Behind Your Back 4* - pretty funny with the voice actors! (would have been 3* on paper, my imagination isn't good enough to insert the voice inflections that make it so funny to listen to)
#1: The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur 4* - beautiful
#2: For He Can Creep 4* - typical cat story but well done
#3 Spider Rose 3* - good writing but just creepy! Had read this with Schismatrix. Enjoyed his other one Swarm much better (in volume 1 I think)
#4: How Zeke Got Religion at 20,000 Feet 3*
#5: Golgotha 2* - good bones but too short/needed more buildup
#6: 400 Boys 1* - no idea what was going on (might be a reader problem)
#7: The Other Large Thing 2* - bit _too_ typical cat story
#8: Close Encounters of the Mini-Kind 1* - just not my kind of humour
#9: Your Smart Appliances Talk About You Behind Your Back 4* - pretty funny with the voice actors! (would have been 3* on paper, my imagination isn't good enough to insert the voice inflections that make it so funny to listen to)
July 19, 2026
Another collection for Love, Death & Robots is here. I love the LDR animated series, and I think each season is amazing as it experiments with different types of stories and animation styles. This latest collection contains another set of incredible stories.
As usual, the short stories are generally better than their animated versions. This is especially true for Spider Rose, where the main character has completely different motivations and there is also a different ending—very unexpected.
It is just a little shorter than I expected, and I’ve read it recently alongside a series of five-star, amazing books. So I should be more realistic: this is an absolutely solid three-star short stories collection, and I would recommend reading it and rewatching the last season of LDR.
As usual, the short stories are generally better than their animated versions. This is especially true for Spider Rose, where the main character has completely different motivations and there is also a different ending—very unexpected.
It is just a little shorter than I expected, and I’ve read it recently alongside a series of five-star, amazing books. So I should be more realistic: this is an absolutely solid three-star short stories collection, and I would recommend reading it and rewatching the last season of LDR.
May 1, 2026
A very enjoyable collection of short stories though I will say it starts with the worst (at least in my opinion) but maybe it works better as an episode of the series. Yet I still haven’t seen that series so I can’t say for certain.
As always the Scalzi stories are my favourite but I did enjoy the Alien invasion story because of how utterly bonkers it’s seemed to be.
As always the Scalzi stories are my favourite but I did enjoy the Alien invasion story because of how utterly bonkers it’s seemed to be.
April 8, 2026
Enjoyable but this is definitely the weakest of the series.
July 29, 2026
3.5 ⭐️
April 13, 2025
A list of those "8 Stories + 1 Screenplay" had been shown in the description of the associated Amazon entry, but was later removed. I managed to find all those eight stories and read them. They can be easily mapped into various screens in the trailer unveiled the other day, so I figure the list is credible:
#1:
Some pieces are older than I'd expected. Nonetheyless they are all enjoyable reads, especially #1 and #3.
#1:
Some pieces are older than I'd expected. Nonetheyless they are all enjoyable reads, especially #1 and #3.
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