A review by rixx
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 132 by S. Qiouyi Lu, Gu Shi, Geoff Ryman, Suzanne Palmer, Sara Saab, Neil Clarke, Jess Barber, Kelly Robson, Stephanie M. Bucklin, Tom Purdom, A. Brym, Chris Urie, Eric Schwitzgebel

4.0

[The Secret Life of Bots](http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_09_17/) is an utterly charming novella by *Suzanne Palmer*. I can't really say much without spoiling parts of it, but the protagonist is lovely without being humanised, the personal dynamics are sweet and witty, and the time reading it was very well spent.