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The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories
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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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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274 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 7, 2019
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September 9, 2021
I expected mostly hard SF stories, since the emphasis in the title is on Robot and AI technology. I am not a fan of fantasy and many of the stories I would put in that genre. I found one story that I enjoyed.
Some of the stories needed editing. There were awkward sentences that you had to read twice, and misspellings. Of course, this is only an anthology, so I expect these flaws were in the originals, too.
Some of the stories needed editing. There were awkward sentences that you had to read twice, and misspellings. Of course, this is only an anthology, so I expect these flaws were in the originals, too.
October 1, 2020
As typical of some of these collections, you will have some gems and some duds.
Two stories stand out in the collection, but the rest are rubbish.
Two stories stand out in the collection, but the rest are rubbish.
August 27, 2023
This book was a major disappointment because they were almost all stories with human main characters and the robots were on the periphery, providing plot points or just an idea for the human main character to explore. The robots and AI were not front and center as I expected.
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