Status Updates From Avatars Inc

Porcelain Claws in Cinnamon Earth by Madeline Ashby is about a man using an avatar to retrieve the body of the first person to die on Mars.

A Mountain to Climb by Julie Novakova is about a person using multiple avatars on a mission to destroy a space elevator.

In the Lands of the Spill by Aliette de Bodard is about a woman and a partner using an avatar and drones to try to rescue a woman from an AI-driven, technological disaster area in Vietnam.

Bounty by Charles Yu is about a woman using an avatar to capture people whose genetic diversity is wanted by rich people who evacuated the Earth from a climate apocalypse.

Harmony by Dr. Harry Kloor is about acrobat who uses an avatar to return to performing again after a traumatic accident. Bluh...

Overburden by K Chess is about an NGO worker using an avatar to examine an abandoned uranium mine, a precaution local workers can't take.

The Ulgrieb Case by Jeffrey Ford is about a detective switching between the case of a murder committed by a robot and her forest vacation in an avatar.

Behold the Deep Never Seen by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor is about an autonomous AI drone sent by a maritime mining company to investigate a deep sea ore deposit. It completely lost the plot of the anthology and is absolute rubbish besides that.

The Search for [Flight X] by Neon Yang is about using an remote drone to search the ocean floor for a missing plane, and for closure.

Thirty-three by Tade Thompson is about a scientist recruited to use an avatar to stop a clean energy experiment gone awry

The Final Performance of the Amazing Ralphie by Pat Cadigan is a mystery story involving a an AI magician at a convalescent space station. I read it before in a Year's Best anthology. I feel like it doesn't really fit this book. It's more AI story than avatar.

Neuro-dancer by Tom Sweterlitsch is about a man with dementia who is given the use of an avatar as a memory aid.

Uma by Ken Liu is about an electric utility maintenance employee who uses a work avatar to save children from a house fire, and get's her company sued.

Banding by Julia Baggott is about a woman sent in an avatar with a team to track genetically engineered, plastic-eating, centipedes gone wrong.

Robot and Girl With Flowers by Paul McAuley is about an elderly photographer who is guest of honor at a festival in his old hometown which he attends via an avatar. It's a riff off a Brian Aldiss story I haven't read.

Waiting for Amelia by Robert Reed is about a woman competing in an avatar swim race during a hurricane.

Incarnate by Indrapramit Das is about an exiled Indian woman using a remote avatar to visit her family to memorialize her mother.

A Bird Does Not Sing Because It Has an Answer By Johanna Sinisalo is about a contractor using a remote avatar to retrieve ornithological data from the field with minimal disturbance.

Oannes, From the Flood by Adrian Tchaikovsky is about archeologists from Iraq using avatars to recover artifacts from a private collection lost in a climate disaster flooded American mansion.

At the End of a Most Perfect Day by Nino Cipri is about a tele-remote sex worker who applies to a job doing crime scene cleanup.

Two Watersheds by Kelly Robson is about a woman using an avatar to place sensors and take samples in a river system during a climate crisis

Elsewhere by James S.A. Corey is about a disable woman who uses a robot avatar to visit her father in hospice care.

La Mer Donne by Sarah Pinsker is about a reporter using a remote robot to document the destruction of a coastal town during a hurricane.

Add Oil by S.L. Huang is about a man who uses a remote robot to visit his grandmother in Hong Kong during a time of political upheaval.