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Robots: The Recent A.I.
From Kapek''s biotech machines of R.U.R. to Kuttner''s Proud Robot to the fictional assortment of mechanical sex toys, rebels, grandmothers, servants, and masters, these machines have represented our dreams as well as our anxieties. We love these literary creations but fear them as well. Stories from the last decade representing the many faces of robots - beautiful, hideous, and everything in between.
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First published February 8, 2012
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August 6, 2012
I really enjoyed this collection. It's been years since I read a lot of science fiction, although it used to be one of my favorite genres, and after reading this I felt a little more up to date on the possibilities being explored in the realm of artificial intelligence.
Many of the stories were quite erotic, and at first that surprised me. But I soon realized that it makes sense that stories that so directly confront concepts of human consciousness and identity would become stories about relationships and intimacy, physical and otherwise. Several of the stories involve an a.i. sharing interior space with a human. Others focus on intimacy between two a.i.'s who are life partners, life spanning hundreds of years. Another even explores the idea of an a.i. designed to promote the happiness of its owner, except that the owner is happy raping people. Quite disturbing, that one.
Some of the stories also explore the possibility for a consciousness other than human, which also makes a lot of sense. Why should humanity be the model for all forms of consciousness? And the last story of the collection, possibly my favorite, also hints at how human consciousness evolving alongside an a.i. consciousness creates a whole new life form almost. That story was also possibly my favorite because it explored ways of communicating based almost entirely in story, metaphor, mythology, and the possibility of an a.i. basically drawing on the monomyths of humanity to either carry out or create its own mythology.
I highly recommend this book, although I'm a little hesitant about lending it out to my students who were interested in it because of some of the content. They may have to find their own copy.
Many of the stories were quite erotic, and at first that surprised me. But I soon realized that it makes sense that stories that so directly confront concepts of human consciousness and identity would become stories about relationships and intimacy, physical and otherwise. Several of the stories involve an a.i. sharing interior space with a human. Others focus on intimacy between two a.i.'s who are life partners, life spanning hundreds of years. Another even explores the idea of an a.i. designed to promote the happiness of its owner, except that the owner is happy raping people. Quite disturbing, that one.
Some of the stories also explore the possibility for a consciousness other than human, which also makes a lot of sense. Why should humanity be the model for all forms of consciousness? And the last story of the collection, possibly my favorite, also hints at how human consciousness evolving alongside an a.i. consciousness creates a whole new life form almost. That story was also possibly my favorite because it explored ways of communicating based almost entirely in story, metaphor, mythology, and the possibility of an a.i. basically drawing on the monomyths of humanity to either carry out or create its own mythology.
I highly recommend this book, although I'm a little hesitant about lending it out to my students who were interested in it because of some of the content. They may have to find their own copy.
October 18, 2022
Robots: The Recent A.I.
RATED 83% POSITIVE. STORY SCORE 3.89 OF 5
18 STORIES : 4 GREAT / 9 GOOD / 4 AVERAGE / 1 POOR / 0 DNF
Robot stories are nearly as old as Science Fiction. They are some of the genre’s most memorable characters, the motivation for classic plot lines, and biggest cliches. By subtitling this anthology “The Recent A.I.” Rich Horton and Sean Wallace have transported the Robot from the “Mechanical Men” era and firmly placed it in “Computer Software” age. The interaction is no longer between Man and Machine, but between Mind and Mind.
it is when this anthology is highlighting stories about A.I. minds and how humans interact with them that it shines brightest. How will we live, love, and work beside powerful artificial intelligence? This book’s best stories offer interesting hypotheses and test them with consummate literary skill.
This anthology adds four stories to The All-Time Great List:
Kiss Me Twice • (2011) • novella by Mary Robinette Kowal. One of my favorite SF stories of the 21st Century. A police-assistance A.I. presents as Mae West and helps to solve the theft of its own chassis from the police station. This is a rich world with really interesting ideas. I wish this had been the start of a long series of mysteries in this world.
Silently and Very Fast • (2011) • novella by Catherynne M. Valente. A story of the birth of an artificial intelligence and the strange family that she haunts. This story is deeply emeshed in Valente’s embrace of folklore and allusion with her classic use of deeply baroque and maximalist language.
The Djinn's Wife • [India 2047] • (2006) • novelette by Ian McDonald. Set amongst a future India in negotiations around water rights, a young dancer is courted by a powerful A.I. Their unconventional love story plays out against bigger issues of artificial intelligence rights.
Eros, Philia, Agape • (2009) • novelette by Rachel Swirsky. A woman has selected a robot as a husband, but when he gets the right to freedom, his first decision is destroy his capacity for speech and leave the relationship. A nice gender-swapped version of the classic robot lovers story.
REVIEW OF ALL 18 STORIES AT
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RATED 83% POSITIVE. STORY SCORE 3.89 OF 5
18 STORIES : 4 GREAT / 9 GOOD / 4 AVERAGE / 1 POOR / 0 DNF
Robot stories are nearly as old as Science Fiction. They are some of the genre’s most memorable characters, the motivation for classic plot lines, and biggest cliches. By subtitling this anthology “The Recent A.I.” Rich Horton and Sean Wallace have transported the Robot from the “Mechanical Men” era and firmly placed it in “Computer Software” age. The interaction is no longer between Man and Machine, but between Mind and Mind.
it is when this anthology is highlighting stories about A.I. minds and how humans interact with them that it shines brightest. How will we live, love, and work beside powerful artificial intelligence? This book’s best stories offer interesting hypotheses and test them with consummate literary skill.
This anthology adds four stories to The All-Time Great List:
Kiss Me Twice • (2011) • novella by Mary Robinette Kowal. One of my favorite SF stories of the 21st Century. A police-assistance A.I. presents as Mae West and helps to solve the theft of its own chassis from the police station. This is a rich world with really interesting ideas. I wish this had been the start of a long series of mysteries in this world.
Silently and Very Fast • (2011) • novella by Catherynne M. Valente. A story of the birth of an artificial intelligence and the strange family that she haunts. This story is deeply emeshed in Valente’s embrace of folklore and allusion with her classic use of deeply baroque and maximalist language.
The Djinn's Wife • [India 2047] • (2006) • novelette by Ian McDonald. Set amongst a future India in negotiations around water rights, a young dancer is courted by a powerful A.I. Their unconventional love story plays out against bigger issues of artificial intelligence rights.
Eros, Philia, Agape • (2009) • novelette by Rachel Swirsky. A woman has selected a robot as a husband, but when he gets the right to freedom, his first decision is destroy his capacity for speech and leave the relationship. A nice gender-swapped version of the classic robot lovers story.
REVIEW OF ALL 18 STORIES AT
https://www.shortsf.com/reviews/robot...
May 6, 2014
A surprisingly excellent collection about mechanical beings. Nearly all are thoughtful and inventive, and even the worst of the collection is merely unimpressive.
"Eros, Philia, Agape" by Rachel Swirsky. A robot loves his human family, but knows that he was programmed to love them. He ventures into the desert to find his own mind and emotions. This remains one of the best sf short stories I've ever read. The language is simple but descriptive, the people nuanced and fully realized even in a tiny space of pages, and the story itself thoughtful, philosophical, kind but not sentimental.
"Artifice and Intelligence" by Tim Pratt. Only one computer system has achieved sentience, and she is bored and lonely. She makes friends with a single game designer, and they team up to defeat the various evil intelligences (such as a marsh spirit or ghosts) that have infested other computers.
"I, Robot" by Cory Doctorow. A futuristic policeman tracks his teenaged daughter's phone usage and stumbles upon an international plot. Aside from the problem with the world-building, my other issue is that the writing is pretty pedestrian.
"Alternate Girl's Expatriate Life" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz. A machine city creates the perfect housewife. Pointless and meandering.
"The Rising Waters" by Benjamin Crowell. A soldier working on an AI program in the midst of a world war finally creates an AI that can escape her bounds. It changes everything. I absolutely loved the world-building here, and the characters come through bright and clear.
"Houses" by Mark Pantoja. All the humans vanish, leaving behind all the smart machines they created to care for them. The sentient house of one family goes on a search for meaning when it can't fulfill its programming to take care of its family. I liked the ways the robots sought to create communities and identities, sometimes mimicking human society and sometimes veering away from it dramatically.
"The Djinn's Wife" by Ian McDonald. Esha Rathore is a gifted dancer when an AI falls in love with her. He wants more and more intimacy with her, until at last Esha grows frightened and tries to return to loving human men. Set in future Delhi, I liked the surroundings better than the romance.
"Stalker" by Robert Reed. The stalker is an AI programmed to love and serve, and this particular one loves a serial killer. One day, the killer targets a victim who is a little too much for him. Will the AI save the man it is programmed to love, or the woman who seems to understand it? Chilling and fascinating!
"Droplet" by Benjamin Rosenbaum. The humans have all abandoned corporeal existence, leaving their toys behind. Shar and Narra were Quantegral Lovergirls, programmed to serve humanity, but now they drift from planet to planet, trying to love each other and fill their empty days. Narra contemplates leaving her sister/lover, who refuses to love because it feels too much like her old servitude. An attack clarifies their positions. Very, very good.
"Kiss Me Twice" by Mary Robinette Kowal. A young cop trusts the police force's AI, and that gives him an edge when the AI is hacked. Interesting at first, but the mystery isn't well crafted and it goes on too long.
"Algorithms for Love" by Ken Liu. Elena is a brilliant programmer--too brilliant. After her carefully crafted dolls begin to fool people into thinking they're human, she begins to fear that she herself is just a series of algorithms. Super creepy and wonderfully written.
"A Jar of Goodwill" by Tobias S Buckell. Humanity is thrilled when aliens contact Earth, but horrified when the Gheda demand payment for patents for things that they invented earlier than (but independently of) humans. Now every human--every form of life except the Gheda--is born into crushing debt. When a small band of mercenary explorers discover a new form of life, they have to choose between lobotomizing the aliens and keeping their discoveries, thus freeing themselves from debt and preventing the new aliens from becoming as downtrodden as humanity, or letting the Gheda do to the aliens what they've done to every other race. It's a great universe, and one I'd love to see more of.
"The Shipmaker" by Aliette De Bodard. Dac Kien is in the final stages of crafting the perfect ship for a Mind when something goes terribly wrong. It's terrible, but even worse for Dac Kien, because this is her one chance to become a shipmaker and rise above the shame of being a lesbian without children to carry on her name. The universe is interesting, the political situation scary but believable, and the interpersonal relationships feel natural.
"Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear. A futuristic tank has lost her platoon and spends her remaining days crafting mourning jewelry out of sea salvage. Her routine is interrupted by the discovery of a ragged child. Good, but it goes on too long and gets too sentimental.
"Under the Eaves" by Lavie Tidhar. A young woman questions whether AIs can love, while various other characters ruminate around her. Didn't hold my interest.
"The Nearest Thing" by Genevieve Valentine. A misanthropic programmer is confronted with his own creation, and must choose whether to free her. Really great characterization.
"Balancing Accounts" by James L Cambias. A sentient rocket accepts mysterious cargo, then has to decide whether to turn it over to the law or help it get to its destination. I didn't buy the AI voices and the plot felt threadbare and obvious.
"Silently and Very Fast" by Catherynne M Valente. A smart house merges with a girl's internal computer system while she dreams. This is the beginning of an AI named Elefsis, who learns through narratives and metaphors told and shown over centuries by the girl's descendents. Thoughtful and at times almost brilliant, but it gets a little bogged down in flowery language at times.
"Eros, Philia, Agape" by Rachel Swirsky. A robot loves his human family, but knows that he was programmed to love them. He ventures into the desert to find his own mind and emotions. This remains one of the best sf short stories I've ever read. The language is simple but descriptive, the people nuanced and fully realized even in a tiny space of pages, and the story itself thoughtful, philosophical, kind but not sentimental.
"Artifice and Intelligence" by Tim Pratt. Only one computer system has achieved sentience, and she is bored and lonely. She makes friends with a single game designer, and they team up to defeat the various evil intelligences (such as a marsh spirit or ghosts) that have infested other computers.
"I, Robot" by Cory Doctorow. A futuristic policeman tracks his teenaged daughter's phone usage and stumbles upon an international plot. Aside from the problem with the world-building, my other issue is that the writing is pretty pedestrian.
"Alternate Girl's Expatriate Life" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz. A machine city creates the perfect housewife. Pointless and meandering.
"The Rising Waters" by Benjamin Crowell. A soldier working on an AI program in the midst of a world war finally creates an AI that can escape her bounds. It changes everything. I absolutely loved the world-building here, and the characters come through bright and clear.
"Houses" by Mark Pantoja. All the humans vanish, leaving behind all the smart machines they created to care for them. The sentient house of one family goes on a search for meaning when it can't fulfill its programming to take care of its family. I liked the ways the robots sought to create communities and identities, sometimes mimicking human society and sometimes veering away from it dramatically.
"The Djinn's Wife" by Ian McDonald. Esha Rathore is a gifted dancer when an AI falls in love with her. He wants more and more intimacy with her, until at last Esha grows frightened and tries to return to loving human men. Set in future Delhi, I liked the surroundings better than the romance.
"Stalker" by Robert Reed. The stalker is an AI programmed to love and serve, and this particular one loves a serial killer. One day, the killer targets a victim who is a little too much for him. Will the AI save the man it is programmed to love, or the woman who seems to understand it? Chilling and fascinating!
"Droplet" by Benjamin Rosenbaum. The humans have all abandoned corporeal existence, leaving their toys behind. Shar and Narra were Quantegral Lovergirls, programmed to serve humanity, but now they drift from planet to planet, trying to love each other and fill their empty days. Narra contemplates leaving her sister/lover, who refuses to love because it feels too much like her old servitude. An attack clarifies their positions. Very, very good.
"Kiss Me Twice" by Mary Robinette Kowal. A young cop trusts the police force's AI, and that gives him an edge when the AI is hacked. Interesting at first, but the mystery isn't well crafted and it goes on too long.
"Algorithms for Love" by Ken Liu. Elena is a brilliant programmer--too brilliant. After her carefully crafted dolls begin to fool people into thinking they're human, she begins to fear that she herself is just a series of algorithms. Super creepy and wonderfully written.
"A Jar of Goodwill" by Tobias S Buckell. Humanity is thrilled when aliens contact Earth, but horrified when the Gheda demand payment for patents for things that they invented earlier than (but independently of) humans. Now every human--every form of life except the Gheda--is born into crushing debt. When a small band of mercenary explorers discover a new form of life, they have to choose between lobotomizing the aliens and keeping their discoveries, thus freeing themselves from debt and preventing the new aliens from becoming as downtrodden as humanity, or letting the Gheda do to the aliens what they've done to every other race. It's a great universe, and one I'd love to see more of.
"The Shipmaker" by Aliette De Bodard. Dac Kien is in the final stages of crafting the perfect ship for a Mind when something goes terribly wrong. It's terrible, but even worse for Dac Kien, because this is her one chance to become a shipmaker and rise above the shame of being a lesbian without children to carry on her name. The universe is interesting, the political situation scary but believable, and the interpersonal relationships feel natural.
"Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear. A futuristic tank has lost her platoon and spends her remaining days crafting mourning jewelry out of sea salvage. Her routine is interrupted by the discovery of a ragged child. Good, but it goes on too long and gets too sentimental.
"Under the Eaves" by Lavie Tidhar. A young woman questions whether AIs can love, while various other characters ruminate around her. Didn't hold my interest.
"The Nearest Thing" by Genevieve Valentine. A misanthropic programmer is confronted with his own creation, and must choose whether to free her. Really great characterization.
"Balancing Accounts" by James L Cambias. A sentient rocket accepts mysterious cargo, then has to decide whether to turn it over to the law or help it get to its destination. I didn't buy the AI voices and the plot felt threadbare and obvious.
"Silently and Very Fast" by Catherynne M Valente. A smart house merges with a girl's internal computer system while she dreams. This is the beginning of an AI named Elefsis, who learns through narratives and metaphors told and shown over centuries by the girl's descendents. Thoughtful and at times almost brilliant, but it gets a little bogged down in flowery language at times.
April 4, 2023
1/5 - Eros, Philia, Agape, by Rachel Swirsky
5/5 - Artifice and Intelligence, by Tim Pratt
2/5 - I, Robot, by Cory Doctorow
2/5 - Alternate Girl's Expatriate Life, by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
1/5 - The Rising Waters, by Benjamin Crowell
2/5 - Houses, by Mark Pantoja
1/5 - The Djinn's Wife, by Ian McDonald
0/5 - Stalker, by Robert Reed
0/5 - Droplet, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
2/5 - Kiss Me Twice, by Mary Robinette Kowal
1/5 - Algorithms for Love, by Ken Liu
1/5 - A Jar of Goodwill, by Tobias S. Buckell
1/5 - The Shipmaker, by Aliette de Bodard
3/5 - Tideline, by Elizabeth Bear
2/5 - Under the Eaves, by Lavie Tidhar
1/5 - The Nearest Thing, by Genevieve Valentine
3/5 - Balancing Accounts, by James L. Cambias
1/5 - Silently and Very Fast, by Catherynne M. Valente
5/5 - Artifice and Intelligence, by Tim Pratt
2/5 - I, Robot, by Cory Doctorow
2/5 - Alternate Girl's Expatriate Life, by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
1/5 - The Rising Waters, by Benjamin Crowell
2/5 - Houses, by Mark Pantoja
1/5 - The Djinn's Wife, by Ian McDonald
0/5 - Stalker, by Robert Reed
0/5 - Droplet, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
2/5 - Kiss Me Twice, by Mary Robinette Kowal
1/5 - Algorithms for Love, by Ken Liu
1/5 - A Jar of Goodwill, by Tobias S. Buckell
1/5 - The Shipmaker, by Aliette de Bodard
3/5 - Tideline, by Elizabeth Bear
2/5 - Under the Eaves, by Lavie Tidhar
1/5 - The Nearest Thing, by Genevieve Valentine
3/5 - Balancing Accounts, by James L. Cambias
1/5 - Silently and Very Fast, by Catherynne M. Valente
May 23, 2020
"Eros, Philia, Agape," by Rachel Swirsky (2009): 5.75
- The worst kind of amateurishness, the kind that thinks it's more than that. Clunky prose that thought itself lyrical. Messy characterization that thought itself multi-faceted. And mawkish sentiment that thought itself dispassionate. It had a steady handle on socio-sexual-cultural concerns, but mostly of a bland type of obligatory "good personedness." Moreover, its exploration of inhuman consciousness--and legitimizing the validity of this non-humanness (whereas most that take this line insist on giving robots rights and argue so from an angle of similarness) was by far the most intriguing aspect the story--was unsuccessful, the desert denouement a stab in the dark for meaning. There was potential in the parallels between Adriana's fathers treatment of her and her own treatment of Lucian, but that was never explored and I'm unsure if the story understood the potential that was there (incidentally, her big Point concerned the similarities between the two in reassembling themselves piece by piece following trauma).
"Artifice and Intelligence," by Tim Pratt (2007): 5
- There's really nothing here. Interestingly for the large subsection of tossed-off themed-anthology pieces I've read, this one is not of the "I'm expanding the barest of bare bones stories into vaguely story-length and struggling at that" kind, but of the "I'm writing ten pages like the start of a convoluted and poorly written novel and then abruptly stopping" kind. What we have here: three characters converge, all dealing in some way with emergent forms of AI (ghosts trapped and character agglomerated; ancient animist nature gods doing a petulant kids bidding; and, in the only interesting element of the work, a newly sentient AI derived from the accumulated knowledge and networking capacity of all of India's call-service infrastructure, and which is hinted at being behind all of 'this' in the first place, if there actually is any 'this' here). Most depressingly, this adopts that knee-jerk, annoying prose tic common to WB genre work far and wide, the "I'm a fast talking smart aleck and quick to cuss and be cool and uncaring and did I say cool" style that bespeaks not only the exact opposite of what it's intended to, but oh so much more and worse. Gross.
"I, Robot," by Cory Doctorow (2005): 6
- Doctorow, sadly, continues to leave me disappointed.
- The worst kind of amateurishness, the kind that thinks it's more than that. Clunky prose that thought itself lyrical. Messy characterization that thought itself multi-faceted. And mawkish sentiment that thought itself dispassionate. It had a steady handle on socio-sexual-cultural concerns, but mostly of a bland type of obligatory "good personedness." Moreover, its exploration of inhuman consciousness--and legitimizing the validity of this non-humanness (whereas most that take this line insist on giving robots rights and argue so from an angle of similarness) was by far the most intriguing aspect the story--was unsuccessful, the desert denouement a stab in the dark for meaning. There was potential in the parallels between Adriana's fathers treatment of her and her own treatment of Lucian, but that was never explored and I'm unsure if the story understood the potential that was there (incidentally, her big Point concerned the similarities between the two in reassembling themselves piece by piece following trauma).
"Artifice and Intelligence," by Tim Pratt (2007): 5
- There's really nothing here. Interestingly for the large subsection of tossed-off themed-anthology pieces I've read, this one is not of the "I'm expanding the barest of bare bones stories into vaguely story-length and struggling at that" kind, but of the "I'm writing ten pages like the start of a convoluted and poorly written novel and then abruptly stopping" kind. What we have here: three characters converge, all dealing in some way with emergent forms of AI (ghosts trapped and character agglomerated; ancient animist nature gods doing a petulant kids bidding; and, in the only interesting element of the work, a newly sentient AI derived from the accumulated knowledge and networking capacity of all of India's call-service infrastructure, and which is hinted at being behind all of 'this' in the first place, if there actually is any 'this' here). Most depressingly, this adopts that knee-jerk, annoying prose tic common to WB genre work far and wide, the "I'm a fast talking smart aleck and quick to cuss and be cool and uncaring and did I say cool" style that bespeaks not only the exact opposite of what it's intended to, but oh so much more and worse. Gross.
"I, Robot," by Cory Doctorow (2005): 6
- Doctorow, sadly, continues to leave me disappointed.
April 18, 2020
It's a little hard to rate collections like this when my enjoyment of the book varied so much from story to story. But I would definitely recommend it because there is probably something for everyone here. The stories I enjoyed the most might be the exact ones that others scorn. On the other hand, the stories that I struggle through are by well-known and recognized authors. There is pure escapism, humor, deep thoughts about what makes one "human," and other reasons to try.
For myself, my favorite was probably Mary Robinette Kowal's Kiss me twice. Her combination of a cop story and humor was very satisfying (and I enjoyed all the Mae West quotes!). Other authors that stood out for me were Mark Pantoja, Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, and James L. Cambias. Oddly enough, that group is divided between authors I've read or planned to read and new names (to me). My biggest regret was that the editors chose to use Catheryne M. Valente's story as the final in the book. I have read one of her novels and believe she has a vivid imagination and a wonderful use of the English language, but I have discovered that her style just doesn't do it for me. I slogged through this one, praying it would end...
Try the book, though, and find your own favorites among the wide variety of tales included!
For myself, my favorite was probably Mary Robinette Kowal's Kiss me twice. Her combination of a cop story and humor was very satisfying (and I enjoyed all the Mae West quotes!). Other authors that stood out for me were Mark Pantoja, Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, and James L. Cambias. Oddly enough, that group is divided between authors I've read or planned to read and new names (to me). My biggest regret was that the editors chose to use Catheryne M. Valente's story as the final in the book. I have read one of her novels and believe she has a vivid imagination and a wonderful use of the English language, but I have discovered that her style just doesn't do it for me. I slogged through this one, praying it would end...
Try the book, though, and find your own favorites among the wide variety of tales included!
May 18, 2012
This is a great collection of AI-themed short stories. I think "Kiss Me Twice" (by Mary Robinette Kowal), a marvelous human/AI buddy cop detective story, is probably the strongest story in the group, but I didn't find any that I thought were weak. "Houses" (by Mark Pantoja) was another one of my favorites. The stories really run the gamut from humans adapting to AI, AI adapting to humans, AI living without humans, etc. The only thing missing from this collection are stories about humans living without AI, but that probably wouldn't have been relevant.
I received this free through Goodreads First Reads (thanks!).
I received this free through Goodreads First Reads (thanks!).
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April 28, 2014Turns out I've already read two terrific stories from this book, Kiss Me Twice by Mary Robinette Kowal and Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente. These two were nominated for numerous awards and actually deserved the recognition, they're great stories. I was already planning to read Aliette de Bodard's The Shipmaker very soon as well. So I've got a head start on what could be a very good book, if these three are any indication. It may be some time until I'm able to get back to the whole book though.
July 6, 2017
Short stories about robots, what's not to love.
Well the Dijhin's Wife.
I read this one in a collection before and did not like it. I would suggest skipping over this snoozefest of a story.
The read are great.
Well the Dijhin's Wife.
I read this one in a collection before and did not like it. I would suggest skipping over this snoozefest of a story.
The read are great.
October 20, 2012
3.5 Stars
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February 26, 2013
Robot stories that tell all about robots, how they can be both beautiful and deadly.
"I, Robot" by Cory Doctorow is quite a tale of robots and their relationship to humanity.
"I, Robot" by Cory Doctorow is quite a tale of robots and their relationship to humanity.
February 1, 2013
Interesting stories exploring artificial intelligence. I really liked Algorithms for Love, A Jar of Goodwill, The Nearest Thing and I Robot.
March 1, 2013
I'm not a fan of short stories - but these were rather good.
November 7, 2019
Reprinted in Unfit Magazine Vol 4, Fall 2019.
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