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"The Secret Life of Bots" is a 2017 science fiction story by Suzanne Palmer. It was first published in Clarkesworld.

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Autonomous maintenance robots take on a much larger role in saving a spaceship from aliens than the ship's human crew could have ever suspected.^[1]

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"The Secret Life of Bots" won the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novelette^[2] Tangent Online considered it to be "charming", with "vivid, interesting characters", and noted the robots have "individuality and multitudes of personalities".^[3]

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^ "REVIEW: "The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer". 18 December 2017.
^ 2018 Hugo Awards at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved August 22 2018
^ Clarkesworld #132, September 2017, reviewed by Filip Wintgren, at Tangent Online; published September 19, 2017; retrieved August 22, 2018

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[1] "REVIEW: "The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer". 18 December 2017.

[Hugo-2] 2018 Hugo Awards at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved August 22 2018

[Tangent-3] Clarkesworld #132, September 2017, reviewed by Filip Wintgren, at Tangent Online; published September 19, 2017; retrieved August 22, 2018

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