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Robots: The Recent A. I.
| Author: | Rich Horton Sean Wallace |
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Prime Books, 2012 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Even before Karel Capek coined the term robot, the idea of mechanical people fascinated us: they wanted to play one, to use their ingenuity to create in their own image. While the actual robotics achievements have been stunning, the literary robots are even more amazing in the diversity of both function and metaphor.
From Capek'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. In this anthology are the stories that represent all the many faces of robots: beautiful, hideous, and everything in between.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - (2012) - essay by Rich Horton
- Eros, Philia, Agape - (2009) - novelette by Rachel Swirsky
- Artifice and Intelligence - (2007) - shortstory by Tim Pratt
- I, Robot - (2005) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
- Alternate Girl's Expatriate Life - (2010) - shortstory by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
- The Rising Waters - (2009) - novelette by Benjamin Crowell
- Houses - (2011) - shortstory by Mark Pantoja
- The Djinn's Wife - (2006) - novelette by Ian McDonald
- Stalker - (2011) - shortstory by Robert Reed
- Droplet - (2002) - shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- Kiss Me Twice - (2011) - novella by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Algorithms for Love - (2004) - shortstory by Ken Liu
- A Jar of Goodwill - (2010) - novelette by Tobias S. Buckell
- The Shipmaker - (2010) - shortstory by Aliette de Bodard
- Tideline - (2007) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear
- Under the Eaves - (2012) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
- The Nearest Thing - (2011) - novelette by Genevieve Valentine
- Balancing Accounts - (2008) - shortstory by James L. Cambias
- Silently and Very Fast - (2011) - novella by Catherynne M. Valente
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