Yes, you can now preorder one of the most highly anticipated anthologies of the year!

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Multi-award-winning editor Michael Bailey brings you the next volume of the You, Human series, with fiction illustrated throughout by L.A. Spooner, poetry illustrations by Orion Zangara, and an introduction by Maxwell I. Gold. Volume 2 contains poetry by Linda D. Addison on the Three Laws of Humanity, along with a novella and 11 novelettes by today’s masters (and a few newcomers) of dark science fiction.

Available July 3, 2025!

Poetry illustrated by Orion Zangara.

Table of Contents:

00. “Introduction” by Maxwell I. Gold

“Three Laws of Humanity” poetry by Linda D. Addison leads each of the book’s 3 parts:

I. Being I

01. “The Spotter” by Josh Malerman
02. “One Brown Mouse” by Gary A. Braunbeck
03. “When Did It Happen?” by Erinn L. Kemper
03. “Under the Skin” by J. Lincoln Fenn

II. Watching You

05. “Doubt” by Will McMahon
06. “Immortalized” by Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
07. “A Hollow Where the Screams Have Gone” by Hailey Piper
08. “AI Chronicles: Properties of a Human Curse” by Eugen Bacon

III. They Become One

09. “Time for a (R)Evolution!: A Documentary” by Sachin Baliga
10. “All the Names You Didn’t Choose” by Ai Jiang
11. “The Touch of an Old Friend’s Hand” by Scott Edelman
12. “Emergence” by Bruce Golden

Fiction illustrated by L.A. Spooner.

Need to catch up? Vol. 1 is available as well.