Traumatized robots and cyborgs finding themselves through love, friendship, and an unbridled desire to be free to be themselves. Sci-fi lovers – step into this novella series collection at any point now – no title requires a pre-requisite knowledge of any title that comes before it.
The Machines is a series authored and illustrated by author/illustrator Aimee Cozza, starting with the debut release The Warm Machine in 2024, followed by The Lucky Machine in 2025. Each title travels through a round of crowdfunding, allowing backers to pre-order and receive copies before anyone else, with additional goodies including cover creation, bot-building, polls, and more to help bring readers into The Machines world.
The Machines is a series authored and illustrated by author/illustrator Aimee Cozza, starting with the debut release The Warm Machine in 2024, followed by The Lucky Machine in 2025. Each title travels through a round of crowdfunding, allowing backers to pre-order and receive copies before anyone else, with additional goodies including cover creation, bot-building, polls, and more to help bring readers into The Machines world.
Cozza crafts each story as a unique take on an amalgamation of her very favorite take-aways from the sci-fi genre as a whole, focusing on character-driven plot. Each title is meant to stand on its own, so readers can enter into the series at any point without any prerequisite reading. Returning readers will find familiar characters and settings they already know and love. Each story is written in novella format to allow for quick reading (each book only takes about 3 hours to read) serving the same length of time as a cinematic film or a few episodes of a lovingly binged show.
The Machines provides a somewhat cozy backdrop to sufficiently high stakes in a far-future sci-fi world; titles are not devoid of action, but should never be considered action-adventure. Instead, characters analyze and discuss, pontificate and ponder, and discover who they truly are at their cores through testing trials and self-reflection that many readers come to find to be wholly relatable.
Readers will also enjoy LGBTQ+ characters (they’re robots, after all) including current and upcoming character representation in the following categories: gay, lesbian, bisexual/pansexual, polyamorous, nonbinary, asexual/aromantic, and transgender characters.
Fall in love with a few robots or cyborgs, whether it’s the grumpy military robot or the cinnamon roll labor robot, by picking up one of The Machines titles today!
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