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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...

Stating the COVID-19 lab leak theory as fact is a bad look.

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.