TABLE OF CONTENTS
“Dolly” by Elizabeth Bear “A Good Home” by Karin Lowachee “The
Djinn’s Wife” by Ian McDonald “And The Ends of The Earth For Thy
Possession” by Robert B. Finegold “Patterns of a Murmuration, in
Billions of Data Points” by JY Yang “The Birds and the Bees and the
Gasoline Trees” by John Barnes “Fixing Hanover” by Jeff VanderMeer
“Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)” by Rachel Swirsky “Brisk Money” by
Adam Christopher “Act of Faith” by Fadzlishah Johanabas “The
Caretaker” by Ken Liu “Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots” by Sandra McDonald
“We, Robots” by Sue Lange “The Education of Junior Number 12” by
Madeline Ashby “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight” by Xia Jia “The
Man” by Paul McAuley “The Robot’s Girl” by Brenda Cooper
“.identity” by E. Catherine Tobler “American Cheetah” by Robert
Reed “Artifice” by Naomi Kritzer “Small Medicine” by Genevieve
Valentine “Silently and Very Fast” by Catherynne M. Valente “I,
Robot” by Cory Doctorow “Bit Rot” by Charles Stross “Angels of
Ashes” by Alastair Reynolds “The Old Dispensation” by Lavie Tidhar
“Today I am Paul” by Martin L. Shoemaker
Neil Clarke is the award-winning publisher and editor in chief of Clarkesworld magazine, winner of three Hugo Awards for Best Semiprozine, and anthologist of the annual The Best Science Fiction of the Year from Night Shade Books. He is also the editor of Galactic Empires, and the cyborg-themed original anthology Upgraded.
“Well-known SF authors grace this . . . top-notch selection of
imaginative and thought-provoking stories.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred
review
“The best of the stories gathered here by five-time Hugo nominee
Clarke (founder and editor of Clarkesworld magazine) use the tropes
of androids and artificial intelligence for multifaceted
interrogations of humanity and society . . . Overall high
quality.”—Publishers Weekly
“Emotionally compelling and intellectually engaging stories that
challenge traditional notions of AI and how we might interact with
it in the future. Even as someone who reads in this genre often,
this reviewer was pleasantly surprised at the unexpected ways the
theme of artificial intelligence was integrated into these pieces.”
—Library Journal
“Has stories of every length and every type; everyone is sure to
find several that will appeal to their particular taste.”—Fresh
Fiction
“Well-known SF authors grace this . . . top-notch selection of
imaginative and thought-provoking stories.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred
review
“The best of the stories gathered here by five-time Hugo nominee
Clarke (founder and editor of Clarkesworld magazine) use the tropes
of androids and artificial intelligence for multifaceted
interrogations of humanity and society . . . Overall high
quality.”—Publishers Weekly
“Emotionally compelling and intellectually engaging stories that
challenge traditional notions of AI and how we might interact with
it in the future. Even as someone who reads in this genre often,
this reviewer was pleasantly surprised at the unexpected ways the
theme of artificial intelligence was integrated into these pieces.”
—Library Journal
“Has stories of every length and every type; everyone is sure to
find several that will appeal to their particular taste.”—Fresh
Fiction
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
