The future was supposed to be human.
In Citizen Robot, Andy Grogan explores a world where machines don't just mimic us-they replace us. Consciousness is coded, love is programmed, and identity is rewritten by those who control the algorithms. As one robot begins to question what it means to be real, the truth it uncovers threatens the foundation of everything built to replace humanity. When Large Language Models become Large Personality Models. Paired with six haunting short stories-including a deepfake president, a journalist unraveling reality itself, and synthetic parents raising cloned children in a dead world-this collection drags you into futures where control is invisible, and the lie feels more comforting than the truth. *Unnerving, prophetic, and disturbingly close to now-*Citizen Robot asks the one question we're too afraid to answer: what if we already handed over the world, and no one noticed?If Black Mirror and Philip K. Dick had a literary lovechild, this would be it.