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.

About the Author
Jon Stone is a Derbyshire-born writer, editor and researcher. He won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2012 and his collection School of Forgery (Salt, 2012) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. As well as writing several shorter poetry books and co-editing a number of collaborative anthologies with Sidekick Books, he has published a monograph, Dual Wield: The Interplay of Poetry and Videogames (DeGruyter, 2022). He teaches writing and publishing at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. Kirsten Irving is a Lincolnshire-born, London-based poet and voiceover, and one half of the team behind collaborative press Sidekick Books. Her work has been published by Salt and Happenstance, widely anthologised and thrown out of a helicopter. She has won the Live Canon International Poetry Prize, judged competitions, and taught courses on folklore in poetry. Kirsten's latest collection, Hot Cockalorum, was published in 2022 by Guillemot Press.


Book Information
ISBN 9781909560277
Author Jon Stone
Format Paperback
Imprint Sidekick Books
Publisher Sidekick Books