No, Robot, No!: 3 (Headbooks) - Softcover

The role of robots in our future is ever in flux. Originally envisaged as the perfect underclass, they threaten to emerge as our replacements, our conquerors, even a more durable extension of our selves.

Let No, Robot, No be your trusty interactive guide to the coming revolution: a whirring, clanking trip into the uncanny valley. Human and automaton meet, mesh and clash in pages of fizzing lyricism and dizzying colour, exploring the poetics of AI, androids and digital sentience. The most important component is you: activate the book with your handprint. Hack its core programming with your own code. Be the ghost in the machine.

Jon Stone was born in Derby and lives in London. His poems have appeared in anthologies of imitation, formal innovation, science fiction, erotic and comic book poetry. School of Forgery (Salt, 2012) brings all these elements together, while he also collates, collaborates and anthologises through Sidekick Books, the small press he runs with Kirsten Irving. He won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2012 and the Poetry London competition in 2014.

Kirsten Irving is a British voice actor, copywriter, editor and poet. Born in Louth, Lincolnshire, she studied American Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, spending a year at Tulane University, New Orleans in the process. She currently lives and works in Whitechapel, London.