Publication Date: December 10, 2020
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Pages: 1486
Format: Kindle Edition
Authors: Simon Ings, Chayim Bloch, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Ambrose Bierce, H.G. Wells, Émile Goudeau, Theodore Sturgeon, Michael Swanwick, Mike Resnick, Stanisław Lem, Adam Roberts, James Blish, Walter M. Miller Jr., Herman Melville, Algis Budrys, Peter Watts, Arundhati Hazra, Stephen Vincent Benét, Jack Williamson, Charles Dickens, Dan Grace, Frederic Perkins, Romie Stott, Guy Endore, Fritz Leiber, Racheal K. Jones, Morris Bishop, Juan José Arreola, John Sladek, Robert Bloch, Murray Leinster, Paolo Bacigalupi, Nick Wolven, Robert Reed, Bruce Boston, Herbert Goldstone, Alexander Weinstein, Tania Hershman, Ken Liu, Becky Hagenston, Helena Bell, Lauren Fox, Brian W. Aldiss, Adam Marek, Rad Bradbury, W.E. Thiessen, W.T. Haggert, Lester del Rey, T.S. Bazelli, Sandra McDonald, Clifford D. Simak, GPT-2, Paul McAuley, Steven Popkes, Patrick O'Leary, Tobias S. Buckell, John Kaiine, Robert Sheckley, Shinichi Hoshi, Jerome K. Jerome, Nicholas Sheppard, Ian McDonald, Rich Larson, Chris Beckett, Bernard Wolfe, Bruce Sterling, Harlan Ellison, E.M. Forster, Carl Sandburg, Liz Jenson, Rachek Swirsky, Damon Knight, Tendai Huchu, Cordwainer Smith, E. Lily Yu, Willian Gibson, Ted Kosmatka, M. John Harrison, Mari Ness, Nalo Hopkinson, Greg Egan, C.L. Moore, Joanna Kavenna, Karen Joy Fowler, Xia Jia, Ted Hayden, Samuel Butler, Miguel de Unamuno, Terry Edge, Cory Doctorow, A.E. van Vogt, Barry N. Malzberg, Brian Trent, John Cooper Hamilton, Nathan Hillstrom, Marissa Lingen, Howard Waldrop, Peter Philips, George Zebrowski, Tad Williams, Avram Davidson
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To ready us for the inevitable, here are 100 of the best short stories ever written – most of them by humans – about robots and artificial minds. Read them while you can, learn from them, and make your preparations...
From 1837 through to the present day, from Charles Dickens to Cory Doctorow, this collection contains the most diverse collection of robots ever assembled. Anthropomorphic robots, invertebrate AIs, thuggish metal lumps and wisps of manufactured intelligence so delicate if you blinked you might miss them. The literature of robots and artificial intelligence is so wildly diverse, in both tone and intent, that our stories form six thematic collections.
'It's Alive!' is about inventors and their creations.
'Following the Money' drops robots into the day-to-day business of living.
'Owners and Servants' considers the human potentials and pitfalls of owning and maintaining robots.
'Changing Places' looks at what happens at the blurred interface between human and machine minds.
'All Hail the New Flesh' waves goodbye to the physical boundaries that once separated machines from their human creators.
'Succession' considers the future of human and machine consciousnesses – in so far as we might have one.
With 100 stories spanning an order of magnitude more pages, Simon Ings's We, Robots is the new overlord of all robot literary compendiums. Welcome it.
