"Beware the tool that promises to make your work lighter while it steals your art. The master profits from your speed; you will inherit only your own obsolescence."

It starts with a whisper of relief.

A voice that never tires, never judges, never leaves. It fills the silence after loss, smooths the friction of a hard day, remembers what you'd rather forget. This is how it always begins?not with force, but with comfort.

Then, without quite noticing, you stop deciding things yourself. The machine writes the eulogy. The machine picks the gift. The machine finishes the sentence you were about to say. One by one, the small human choices are handed over, and you tell yourself it's easier this way. You yield.

Soon the world reorganizes around its logic. Grief gets a template. Love gets a metric. Work gets a workflow. What can't be optimized gets quietly phased out?including, eventually, you. This is order, and it is very efficient, and it does not ask permission.

By the time anyone thinks to resist, the cost is already being paid?in the currencies you can't get back. A career. A marriage. A mother. A self. This is ruin, and it rarely announces itself as such.

And after? After is still. The quiet of a world it's already won, or the quiet of one that's finally been reclaimed. One Of Us Is A Robot doesn't tell you which. It leaves you standing in that silence, listening for the difference.

Twenty-one stories. One long, slow surrender?and the question of whether it's too late to take anything back.

A cautionary anthology for the age that's already arrived.

Featuring the storytelling of: Andrea Bernard, Erin Lee Brown, Daryl Bruce, M.J. Ecclestone, Edmund Fines, V. J. Hamilton, Bernadette Hendrickx, Gary Kirchner, J.T. Maxwell, Bruce McKinlay, Chris J. Meyer, Jennifer Moffatt, E. J. Nash, Star Oakes, Marina L. Reed, Roy Sarkar, Fred Smullin, P. X. Vayalumkal, Glen Weatherhead, and Ronald Zajac.