Step into a high-tech vision of the future with the author of Quantum Confessions and Fluence. A literary Black Mirror.

The future is bright...or is it?

Featuring health-monitoring mirrors, tele-empathic romances and limb-repossessing bailiffs, Eating Robots explores the collision of utopian dreams and twisted realities in a world where humanity and technology are becoming ever more intertwined.

Sometimes funny, often unsettling, and always with a word of warning, these thirty sci-fi shorts will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page.

Stephen Oram writes thought-provoking stories that mix science fiction with social comment, mainly in a recognisable near-future. He is the Author in Residence at Virtual Futures, once described by 'The Guardian' as "the Glastonbury of cyberculture". He's keen on collaborating with scientists and future-tech people to write short stories that provoke debate about potential futures; the title story, 'Eating Robots', came from working with the Human Brain Project and Bristol Robotics Laboratory. He has two published novels, 'Quantum Confessions' and 'Fluence', and several shorter pieces.