Letters to Our Robot Son
Tourism guide
& author’s odyssey
This website contains mild spoilers
for Letters to Our Robot Son
Explore the places of the visionary Aussie novel
Author Cadance Bell wants readers to visit the locations of her novels.
I adore the bush, though capturing it is only the beginning. I want to inspire the same awe I feel in my readers, so that they might visit these locations and tell their own stories in turn. This is how places become sacred.
– Cadance Bell
As a tactile, kinaesthetic writer she places immense importance on place & country, grounding the narrative of Letters to Our Robot Son within the real world: the Blue Mountains National Park and Sydney region.
Now, you’re invited to explore the real-life locations of the novel, inspiring destinations and go inside the author’s process as she created the epic Aussie sci-fi novel.
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Family | Artificial Intelligence | Hope | Family | Artificial Intelligence | Hope
About the Book
An unexpected story of life, family, hope, and redemption—at the end of the world (maybe).
Arto wakes up in a desolate world devoid of humanity—he’s a robot, he knows that much—but he has no memory of how he got here. With a mysterious letter and a cheeky kitten as his only companion, he embarks on a quest to understand his existence.
As Arto navigates this unfamiliar landscape, he stumbles upon a cantankerous robot who claims to be his sister.
And that’s a problem, because she might be the reason there are no more people.
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Praise for Letters to Our Robot Son
“Bell is a mercurial genius, a fearless imagineer, whose bold ideas fizz off the page with spry wit and distinct rhythm. Letters to Our Robot Son is a superb work that summons the speculative spirit of Phillip K. Dick, H.G. Wells and Charlie Brooker.
Told with warmth, tenderness and courage, it’s an unmissable journey that will move, challenge and inspire.”
– Craig Silvey
Author of Honeybee and Jasper Jones
“Epic in every possible way. Big ideas. Big adventures. Big heart. Big questions. Cadance Bell reminds us why stories matter – particularly the ones we tell ourselves.
She is a tale teller; a world conjurer; a narrative alchemist. Letters to Our Robot Son is as playful as it is prescient, and an intergalactic love letter to found families”.
– Beejay Silcox
Author & Literary Critic
“Cadance Bell has pulled off an extraordinary feat in Letters to our Robot Son: a terrifying, funny, profound and ultimately hopeful story of what makes us human – and why we must question that.
A rollicking adventure with a heart-busting character at its core that tousles with some of the biggest and most important questions of our time.”
– Kate Mildenhall
Author of The Hummingbird Effect and The Mother Fault
Meet the Author
Cadance Bell is an Australian author, screenwriter, producer, director and writer. Her memoir The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody was published by Penguin in July 2022 to critical acclaim and shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year.
Letters to Our Robot Son is her first fiction novel. She recently completed the first draft of her second novel, a zombie apocalypse story with a really great soundtrack: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Human!
She is the founder of Bell Tempo, creating stories for virtual, spatial and immersive worlds.
Cadance lives in regional New South Wales with her fiancée Amanda. She likes board games and short walks to the fridge.
Her favourite food is burritos.