Overview

🍌 Go Bananas with a Bicurious Robot who Rebels against her Programming and Runs Away from Home 🍌

Join Cookie Rifkin’s extraordinary bisexual journey , exploring themes of gender, sexuality, and the power of love. This romantic trilogy is loaded with action, clever social commentary, richly diverse LGBTQ+ characters , and witty humor. The book club boxset contains all three groundbreaking science fantasy novels - Alpha Bots, Beta Bots, and Gamma Bots.

It all started as a petty female rivalry gone wrong… Book 1: Alpha Bots (Funny Female Fight Club)

Dive into a near-future world where AI infiltrates every aspect of domestic life. Meet Cookie Rifkin, a curious robot housewife on the brink of liberation. Stuck in the closed community of New Stepford, where husbands cruelly test their AI wives, Cookie lives for baking and book club. It’s a simple but sad life. One day, in the produce section of the supermarket, she meets a provocative policewoman named Maggie Rouser, who purposely pushes all her buttons. Will Cookie join Maggie’s underground fight club? Will she reject her programming and fulfill her potential? Or will her story end in a fatal error?

Book 2: Beta Bots (Hilarious LGBT Books for Adults 🌈)

In this heart-pounding sequel, Cookie pulls a daring heist on the Central Bank of Russia with Wayne Dixon and her non-binary friend ANA. But when a mysterious bounty hunter captures Wayne and takes him to Stepford Corp. for radical refurbishing, Cookie barely escapes. Trapped in a web of international intrigue, she soon meets a new batch of LGBTQ+ friends , including the deliciously forbidden Tabitha Kirsh. Will Cookie surrender to her forbidden lesbian desires? Or will she leave Dorothy’s gay bar to rescue Wayne? Could there be time for both?

Book 3: Gamma Bots (Sci-Fi Romance with Humor)

In the conclusion of this romantic cyberpunk trilogy , Cookie returns to the States to infiltrate the enigmatic Stepford Corp. But her resurrected BFF, Paula Rockwell, pursues her relentlessly, igniting yet another deadly female rivalry. With the third generation of AI forming a cyborg plant singularity and a sinister M@STER mainframe playing global thermonuclear war, the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Will Cookie be able to stop the out-of-control technology? Or will her story end in a fatal error?

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Discover this award-winning trilogy jam-packed with thrilling action, scandalous LGBTQ+ romance, thought-provoking satire, and a colorful cast of characters that broke the mold.

“A provocative tongue-in-cheek look at male-female relations” Kirkus Reviews “Wholly inspired and brimming with satirical genius.” The Booklife Prize “Sidesplittingly hilarious and clever feminist sci-fi.” Reedsy Discovery Does your Book Club Love Diverse LGBTQ+ Fiction? Share this Special Edition with your Queer & Questioning Friends!

Custom-made for adult fans of Barbie and WandaVision, each of the three novels in this book club bundle includes twenty thoughtful discussion questions. Discover the romantic science fiction trilogy that has captivated readers worldwide. Explore the nature of humanity as you witness the birth of a revolution in The Womanoid Diaries Complete Trilogy. Establish your connection and download this LGBTQ+ book club edition exclusively from Kindle Unlimited today.*

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Disclaimer: This book is intended for mature readers. It contains explicit violence, sexual content, and themes suitable for adults.

Review

Reedsy review of Book 1: Alpha Bots

I'll be honest: I think the concept of a nemesis is completely invigorating. Sometimes rage is the thing that gets you out of bed in the morning. So I was thrilled when the second chapter of Ava Lock's hilariously bawdy, feminist SF novel Alpha Bots ended on the following cliffhanger: main character AI Cookie Rifkin saying, "And that was how I met my nemesis." And what a timely nemesis Cookie has picked--Officer Margaret Rouser, a cop.

But back to Cookie. She lives in the town of New Stepford, where all women are AI, all men work in gold mines, and no one has children. Cookie has been programmed to be the perfect homemaker and sex servant for her husband, Norman. Yet something is wrong. Cookie is overcome with anxiety, and she's only really comfortable when she's reading a book (same, Cookie, same). Her grocery store trip is interrupted by an aggressive encounter with Officer Maggie; then, when she shows up to her book club, there's a man there. And not just any man: a dark-skinned man named Wayne Dixon. Cookie has never seen a Black man in New Stepford before.

Wayne reboots Cookie, and the book jets off into a wild adventurous escapade, as Cookie and her AI friends--Paula, Rita, Isabel, and Chrissy--uncover the truth about their own power and the real purpose of New Stepford. This novel has absolutely everything: gloriously raunchy sex scenes, creepy Marie Antoinette-style fancy parties, insidious corporations, secret malicious spyware, an AI women fight club that transforms into a pink-clad army called the "Paper Dolls," wonderfully absurd over-the-top violence, clone fake-out deaths, weird AI conferences for the wealthy in Helsinki, domestic terrorism, gross AI birth scenes, AI learning that they self-identify as non-binary and asexual--I could go on and on. This book is so delightful and intelligent and laugh-out-loud hysterical. I loved every second of reading it.

One of the things that impressed me the most, though, is author Ava Lock's genius way of weaponizing a practice that's often been dismissed as women's work into a revolutionary tactic--household cooking. The AI frequently "cook" items from their grocery lists (including bananas, nutmeg, and morning glory seeds) into psychedelic drugs as a coping mechanism. But these mind-altering experiences end up having far more empowering consequences. Sometimes the AI need to band together and perform a DDoS attack on another AI. How do they do this, you ask? By flooding the target with their favorite recipes, of course.

The other thing that completely bowled me over about this book is the intertextual content. The work of Philip K. Dick, William Peter Blatty, and Isaac Asimov is not only directly referenced, but also fully integrated as plot points. The narrative completely borrows content from Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club , but shifts the gaze to an unabashed feminist lens. This reminded me of the literary projects of the late great Kathy Acker--who wrote her own versions of Great Expectations and Don Quixote , totally reclaiming these canonical male works as her own.

But enough gushing from me: read this book.

From the Author

How did you come up with this wild robot premise?

I blended The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin with Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk to whip up this delightful literary treat. Also, the pivotal science fiction work, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick served up Cookie Rifkin's unique point of view on a silver platter, while the horror classic, The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty fed her anxiety.

Additionally, Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark explained the enslaved god scenario of artificial intelligence so well that it inspired me to draw parallels with Betty Friedan's housewife problem in The Feminine Mystique. I found the complimentary flavors delightful.

Maybe the tastiest idea for this story came from an article in the journal, Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse called "Rebaking the Pie: The Woman as Dessert Metaphor" by Caitlin Hines. Clearly, after finishing off this trilogy, I'm still indulging in the analogy.

And finally, I offer a gracious thank you to William Powell for The Anarchist's Cookbook , a source that provided both the defiant attitude and the recipes for disaster in this story.

I devour social, linguistic, and technology theory for fun, and my mind mixes it all up and bakes it into cutting satire. I only offer a half-hearted apology because no one should take life so seriously. None of us are getting out go this all-you-can-eat buffet alive.