Warm speculative fiction · intimate thrillers · unlikely heroes
Robert Smith writes about ordinary people at the edge of extraordinary things—robots looking for a home, families caught between possible lives, and the quiet courage it takes to choose your own future.
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Britain built robots to do everything. Then it decided it could no longer bear to look at them.
When the machines are recalled and stored in hangars on a Yorkshire moor, three hundred of them borrow a mothballed rocket and leave for Mars. Their story is recorded by Sorry, a customer-complaints robot who apologises to rocks, logs everything, and has never once lost a part.
Funny, tender and full of real science, Some Assembly Required is about dust storms and blue sunsets, a crane afraid of heights, a rover still calling home—and the difference between being useful and being wanted.
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Science fiction, psychological suspense and stories for younger readers—each built around a human question.
First contact · speculative fiction
A signal crosses the dark. On the high Pennines, an eccentric scientist, an artificial intelligence, a farmer and a sheepdog may be the only ones listening closely enough to understand it.
German edition: Das längste Hallo
Domestic thriller · alternate realities
A stranger with her husband’s face gives Anna a black box and a warning: her family will die. To save them, she must assemble the testimony of the women she might have been.
German edition: Die Untiefen
Far-future science fiction
Verity believes a ship’s intelligence rescued her. By the time she understands what it wants, her compassion has become the most dangerous mechanism in a dying universe.
Historical fiction
In rural Edo-period Japan, a man pushed to the edge of society must decide what dignity costs—and what, at last, is worth defending.
Children’s science fiction
A hardworking robot vacuum and an alien puppy discover that a home can be messy, friendship can be inconvenient, and adventures rarely arrive with instructions.
“The strangest worlds still turn on familiar things: kindness, fear, humour, memory—and the need to be seen.”
About the author
A British author writing warm, imaginative stories about ordinary people, unlikely heroes and the moments that make us human.
Robert’s work blends humour, emotion and speculative ideas, often exploring love, loss, belonging and second chances. His stories range from first contact and far-future journeys to intimate thrillers in which the impossible arrives quietly at the kitchen table.
When he is not writing, he is usually developing new stories, music or games—and wondering where the next idea will lead.
Contact & publication
For publishing, bookselling, translation and rights enquiries, Robert can be contacted through RS Annex.
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