"Fandom for Robots" is a 2017 science fiction short story by

Vina Jie-Min Prasad Vina Jie-Min Prasad (维娜·杰敏·普拉萨德) is a Singaporean writer of science fiction and fantasy. She is a three-time finalist for both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award, and has also been a finalist for other speculative fiction awa ...

. It was first published in ''

Uncanny Magazine ''Uncanny Magazine'' is an American science fiction and fantasy online magazine, edited and published by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, based in Urbana, Illinois. Its mascot is a space unicorn. The editors-in-chief, who originally ...

''.

Synopsis

Computron — the world's first and only sentient robot — discovers anime, online fandom, and

fan fiction Fan fiction or fanfiction (also abbreviated to fan fic, fanfic, fic or FF) is fictional writing written in an amateur capacity by fans, unauthorized by, but based on an existing work of fiction. The author uses copyrighted characters, settin ...

Reception

"Fandom for Robots" was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 20172017 Nebula Award Finalists Announced!
at Science Fiction Writers of America; published February 20, 2018; retrieved March 31, 2018 and the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.2018 Hugo Award Finalists Announced
at Tor.com; published March 31, 2018; retrieved March 31, 2018 ''

Tangent Online ''Tangent Online'' is an online magazine launched in its online incarnation in 1997, though it began as a print magazine in 1993. ''Tangent Online'' is edited by Dave Truesdale, with web-hoster Eric James Stone. The magazine covers reviews of sci ...

'' considered it to be "a feel-good tale with good humor and heart".Uncanny #18, September/October 2017
, reviewed by Rebecca DeVendra, at

; published September 12, 2017; retrieved March 31, 2018

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