Robots and Other People

Brooke Biaz Information and Pricing978-1-64317-581-2 ($19.95, paperback); 978-1-64317-582-9 ($9.95, PDF); 978-1-64317-583-6 ($9.95, EPUB). © 2026 by Parlor Press. 178 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. What People Are Saying “In Final Report: The Horizon,” in Robots and Other People (Graeme Harper, writing as Brooke Biaz), our narrator tells us the horizon could be a place but might better be held within time. It is neither “the point” prior nor beyond. The authority our narrator claims and the simple veracity of the statement speaks to the multilayered beauty of this collection and the conundrum offered by these stories. Authoritative narrators (“Clock School,” “The Lost Story,” “Insects,” or “Robots” ), “we” (“Living with Cows”), and “I” narrators (“The Abyss,” “Underwater”), those reporting their father’s stories (“Kidnapping Elvis”) or detached but conveying others’ experience (“Quail Stories”) situate us in time—and t