Mission: We here in the Dead Robot offices feel that there is more than one path to literature. To this end, we will endeavor to provide a home for work in a number of creative fields. This includes comics, stories, limericks and essays, all focused on the primary question that has plagued man for lo these many years: Do Robots Get Into Heaven? As we move further into the 21st century we shall find ourselves coming sooner, rather than later, into a direct conflict with artificial intelligence systems that will bear as much of a soul as we do. It is to carve out a space for this discussion and, in our small Socratic way, to guide the conversation of the silicon soul that we have created this magazine. When our children and our children's children look back at the theological debate, they will be proud that we brave few at least took on this most grave of topics at its outset. We also accept stories about Sailing and/or Hamsters. Y'know, whatever.

Content: Dead Robot is a journal of creative storytelling. What does that mean? That means that we are interested in publishing and expanding the world of story. We sure do love us some conventional fiction here, but we also know that that's not everything. So we shall endeavor to provide a home for comics, poems, dialogues, illustrations, illustrated fiction, literary journalism, or whatever else you can think of that we can physically print. Do you have an interpretive dance about the end of the world? Send us the DDR style instructions with the little numbered footprints and if we like it, we'll print it. It's as simple as that. Well, actually, no poetry.

Please review our submission guidelines before mailing us stuff. We're pretty open to what this world can be, but we absolutely will not accept fart jokes or some other stuff that annoys us, so try not to waste your time or ours.

Thank you for your interest.

-Rick Perry-
   Managing Editor