Today I am Paul / Martin L. Shoemaker. The good home / Karin Lowachee -- The djinn's wife / Ian McDonald -- And the ends of the Earth for thy possession / Robert B. Finegold, M.D. -- Patterns of a murmuration, in billions of data points / Jy Yang -- The birds and the bees and the gasoline trees / John Barnes -- Fixing Hanover / Jeff Vandermeer -- Grand jeteĢ (the great leap) / Rachel Swirsky -- Brisk money / Adam Christopher -- Act of faith / Fadzlishah Johanabas -- The caretaker / Ken Liu -- Seven sexy cowboy robots / Sandra McDonald -- We, robots / Sue Lange -- The education of junior number 12 / Madeline Ashby -- A hundred ghosts parade tonight / Xia Jia -- The man / Paul McAuley -- The robot's girl / Brenda Cooper -- .identity / E. Catherine Tobler -- American cheetah / Robert Reed -- Artifice / Naomi Kritzer -- Small medicine / Genevieve Valentine -- Silently and very fast / Catherynne M. Valente -- I, robot / Cory Doctorow -- Bit rot / Charles Stross -- Angels of ashes / Alastair Reynolds -- The old dispensation / Lavie Tidhar -- Today I am Paul / Martin L. Shoemaker.
Summary:
The short stories in More human than human demonstrate the depth and breadth of artificial humanity in contemporary science fiction. Issues of passing, of what it is to be human, of autonomy and slavery and oppression, and yes, the hubris of creation; these ideas have fascinated us for at least two hundred years, and this selection of stories demonstrates why it is such an alluring and recurring conceit.
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