"The Secret Life of Bots" is a 2017 science fiction story by the American author Suzanne Palmer. It was first published in Clarkesworld Magazine.
Synopsis Autonomous maintenance robots take on a much larger role in saving a spaceship from aliens than the ship's human crew could have ever suspected.
Reception "The Secret Life of Bots" won the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the WSFA Small Press Award. Tangent Online considered it to be "charming", with "vivid, interesting characters", and noted the robots have "individuality and multitudes of personalities".Clarkesworld #132, September 2017, reviewed by Filip Wintgren, at Tangent Online; published September 19, 2017; retrieved August 22, 2018
YearAwardCategoryResult2018Hugo AwardNoveletteLocus AwardNoveletteTheodore Sturgeon Award—WSFA Small Press Award—
References
External links Text of the story