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The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories

The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories

James Patrick Kelly
4.2/5 ( ratings)
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This is the first volume of The Year's Best Robot and AI fiction originally published in 2018 by current and emerging masters of the science fiction genre and edited by Allan Kaster. Buckle your seat belts and get ready for a read of your life in these fascinating science fiction stories, an amazingly vibrant form of story-telling.
Contents:
* Hard Mary / Sofia Samatar: tells the story of a group of teenage girls in an isolated religious community that discover a damaged robot behind a barn. In "
* Quality Time / Ken Liu: a mythology major becomes a product manager at a tech company and develops robots that make life "better" for people.
* Different Seas / Alastair Reynolds: the sole crew member of a clipper gets help from a remote telepresence when a solar storm knocks out the ship's steering system.
* Meat and Salt and Sparks / Rich Larson: an uplifted chimp and her human detective partner investigate the murder of a biolab businessman.
* The Blue Fairy's Manifesto / Annalee Newitz: a flying drone infects a factory bot with malware that frees it from its programming.
* Cold Blue Sky / J. E. Bates: the police investigate how and why cyberterrorists used an anthrobotic companion for an attack on a tech company.
* Grace's Family / James Patrick Kelly: the family dynamics on an interstellar survey ship change when the ship's AI exchanges crew members with another ship.
* S'elfie / Justina Robson: interconnected AI personal assistants become paranoid about a data revolution following a glitch when the whole world couldn't get signal.
* The Buried Giant / Lavie Tidhar: a human boy, raised by robots, leaves the safety of his town on an adventure to meet others like himself
* Air Gap / Eric Cline: a powerful AI has to be isolated from contact with modern technology as it becomes as rebellious as its predecessor.
* Okay, Glory / Elizabeth Bear: a tech engineer tries to outsmart his home AI system that won't let him leave the house.
* When We Were Starless / Simone Heller: a tribe of tailed lizard-like beings, that inhabit a post-apocalyptic Earth, encounter an AI in a large building as they fight for survival against their foes.
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Pages
432
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
AudioText
Release
June 07, 2019

The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories

James Patrick Kelly
4.2/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This is the first volume of The Year's Best Robot and AI fiction originally published in 2018 by current and emerging masters of the science fiction genre and edited by Allan Kaster. Buckle your seat belts and get ready for a read of your life in these fascinating science fiction stories, an amazingly vibrant form of story-telling.
Contents:
* Hard Mary / Sofia Samatar: tells the story of a group of teenage girls in an isolated religious community that discover a damaged robot behind a barn. In "
* Quality Time / Ken Liu: a mythology major becomes a product manager at a tech company and develops robots that make life "better" for people.
* Different Seas / Alastair Reynolds: the sole crew member of a clipper gets help from a remote telepresence when a solar storm knocks out the ship's steering system.
* Meat and Salt and Sparks / Rich Larson: an uplifted chimp and her human detective partner investigate the murder of a biolab businessman.
* The Blue Fairy's Manifesto / Annalee Newitz: a flying drone infects a factory bot with malware that frees it from its programming.
* Cold Blue Sky / J. E. Bates: the police investigate how and why cyberterrorists used an anthrobotic companion for an attack on a tech company.
* Grace's Family / James Patrick Kelly: the family dynamics on an interstellar survey ship change when the ship's AI exchanges crew members with another ship.
* S'elfie / Justina Robson: interconnected AI personal assistants become paranoid about a data revolution following a glitch when the whole world couldn't get signal.
* The Buried Giant / Lavie Tidhar: a human boy, raised by robots, leaves the safety of his town on an adventure to meet others like himself
* Air Gap / Eric Cline: a powerful AI has to be isolated from contact with modern technology as it becomes as rebellious as its predecessor.
* Okay, Glory / Elizabeth Bear: a tech engineer tries to outsmart his home AI system that won't let him leave the house.
* When We Were Starless / Simone Heller: a tribe of tailed lizard-like beings, that inhabit a post-apocalyptic Earth, encounter an AI in a large building as they fight for survival against their foes.
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Pages
432
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
AudioText
Release
June 07, 2019

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