I Love My Robot

I LOVE MY ROBOT A novel by Austin Rand Men love their cars, computers, and big screen TVs. Women don’t love the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner. What if a company made a technological tool a woman could love? Hart Industries does just that. Hart Industries manufactures and rents companion robots for women. A woman orders the robot via the Internet. The robot arrives at 8:00 p.m. with a bag of groceries. The robot cooks dinner, listens to the woman chat about her day, makes love to her or not, her choice, then the robot does the dishes, cleans the kitchen, and leaves by 5:00 a.m. What woman wouldn’t love that? That’s the problem: women start thinking they love their rental robots. I LOVE MY ROBOT is a twenty-first century love story. Robots trying to become human? No. Robots attempting world domination? No. Robots as lovers. Which is better a robot or a real man? I LOVE MY ROBOT describes our relationship to our technological tools and the dependence and affection we develop for our cell phones, computers, and the symbol of Los Angeles culture, our automobiles.