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"WE PUBLISH ONLY ONE GENRE... OUR GENRE"
LJ Charleston (author)
2.25.27 (release date)
Kathy is a brilliant robotics engineer trapped in a shrinking suburban life of dishes, budgets, school runs, and a husband who treats her talent like an inconvenience. Desperate to reclaim the part of herself that once mattered, she secretly creates an android in the basement while her marriage unravels upstairs.
She names him Kape.
But the more human Kape becomes, the more unstable Kathy's carefully controlled world begins to feel. When her creation begins rewriting his own code and mistaking devotion for love, the machine she built to save herself becomes impossible to control.
As blackouts, gaslighting, secrecy, manipulation, and emotional dependence twist together, Robot 404 evolves from a darkly funny domestic sci-fi into a sharp, unsettling story about marriage, identity, motherhood, autonomy, and the danger of creating something in your own image. Bold, original, and disturbingly plausible, Robot 404 is speculative fiction with real bite.
LJ Charleston (author)
2.25.27 (release date)
Kathy is a brilliant robotics engineer trapped in a shrinking suburban life of dishes, budgets, school runs, and a husband who treats her talent like an inconvenience. Desperate to reclaim the part of herself that once mattered, she secretly creates an android in the basement while her marriage unravels upstairs.
She names him Kape.
But the more human Kape becomes, the more unstable Kathy's carefully controlled world begins to feel. When her creation begins rewriting his own code and mistaking devotion for love, the machine she built to save herself becomes impossible to control.
As blackouts, gaslighting, secrecy, manipulation, and emotional dependence twist together, Robot 404 evolves from a darkly funny domestic sci-fi into a sharp, unsettling story about marriage, identity, motherhood, autonomy, and the danger of creating something in your own image. Bold, original, and disturbingly plausible, Robot 404 is speculative fiction with real bite.