
We, Robots
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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 artificial intelligence. Simon Ings has assembled anthropomorphic cyborgs and invertebrate AIs, thuggish metal lumps and wisps of manufactured intelligence so delicate that if you blink you might miss them in the new overlord of all robot literary compendiums.
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.
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A glorious delve into the many guises of robots and artificial intelligences. There is a wealth and a range in the stories that have clearly been chosen with some thought... This book is a joy and a triumph. There's nothing artificial about this one - We, Robots shows us a book not afraid to show us the genre's past but more importantly where it is going. Recommended most highly, and definitely one of my books of the year' * SFF World * We, Robots: Artificial Intelligence in 100 Stories is the new cyborg overlord of literary compendiums... The scope and variety of this short story collection is impressive' * Independent * PRAISE FOR SIMON INGS:'Simon Ings goes into orbit as a science fiction master' Daily Mail.
'Entertaining and intelligent' Time Out, Hot Head.
'Both intriguing and unsettling. You should read Simon Ings' iD Magazine.
'Simon Ings, my telepathic abilities tell me, has a serious career ahead of him' Guardian.
'A grim, gripping and unrelenting tale' * Irish Independent, on Painkillers *
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- EPIGRAPH
- SECTION ONE: IT'S ALIVE!
- THE GOLEM RUNS AMUCK
- Chayim Bloch
- FANDOM FOR ROBOTS
- Vina Jie-Min Prasad
- MOXON'S MASTER
- Ambrose Bierce
- THE LAND IRONCLADS
- H. G. Wells
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- THE REVOLT OF THE MACHINES
- Emile Goudeau
- MICROCOSMIC GOD
- Theodore Sturgeon
- ANCIENT ENGINES
- Michael Swanwick
- BEACHCOMBER
- Mike Resnick
- NON SERVIAM
- Stanislaw Lem
- ADAM ROBOTS
- Adam Roberts
- SOLAR PLEXUS
- James Blish
- I MADE YOU
- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- THE BELL-TOWER
- Herman Melville
- FIRST TO SERVE
- Algis Budrys
- MALAK
- Peter Watts
- THE TOYMAKER'S DAUGHTER
- Arundhati Hazra
- SECTION TWO: FOLLOWING THE MONEY
- NIGHTMARE NUMBER THREE
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- WITH FOLDED HANDS
- Jack Williamson
- FULL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING
- Section B.-Display of Models and Mechanical Science.
- Charles Dickens
- FULLY AUTOMATED NOSTALGIA CAPITALISM
- Dan Grace
- THE MAN-UFACTORY
- Frederic Perkins
- A ROBOT WALKS INTO A BAR
- Romie Stott
- MEN OF IRON
- Guy Endore
- A BAD DAY FOR SALES
- Fritz Leiber
- THE GREATEST ONE-STAR RESTAURANT IN THE WHOLE QUADRANT
- Rachael K. Jones
- THE READING MACHINE
- Morris Bishop
- BABY H.P.
- by Juan Jose Arreola
- THE STEAM-DRIVEN BOY
- John Sladek
- COMFORT ME, MY ROBOT
- Robert Bloch
- A LOGIC NAMED JOE
- Murray Leinster
- MIKA MODEL
- Paolo Bacigalupi
- CASPAR D. LUCKINBILL, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
- Nick Wolven
- I
- II
- III
- THE NEXT SCENE
- Robert Reed
- SECTION THREE: OVERSEER AND SERVANT
- OLD ROBOTS ARE THE WORST
- Bruce Boston
- VIRTUOSO
- Herbert Goldstone
- SAYING GOODBYE TO YANG
- Alexander Weinstein
- THE PERFECT EGG
- Tania Hershman
- THE CARETAKER
- Ken Liu
- HI HO CHERRY-O
- Becky Hagenston
- ROBOT
- Helena Bell
- ROSIE CLEANS HOUSE
- Lauren Fox
- SUPER-TOYS LAST ALL SUMMER LONG
- Brian Aldiss
- TAMAGOTCHI
- Adam Marek
- THE VELDT
- Ray Bradbury
- THERE WILL BE SCHOOL TOMORROW
- V. E. Thiessen
- LEX
- W. T. Haggert
- HELEN O'LOY
- Lester Del Rey
- THE PEACEMAKER
- T. S. Bazelli
- SEXY ROBOT MOM
- Sandra McDonald
- I AM CRYING ALL INSIDE
- Clifford D. Simak
- SECTION FOUR: CHANGING PLACES
- TRANSFORMER
- GPT-2
- THE MAN
- Paul McAuley
- THE BIRDS OF ISLA MUJERES
- Steven Popkes
- THAT LAUGH
- Patrick O'Leary
- ZEN AND THE ART OF STARSHIP MAINTENANCE
- Tobias S. Buckell
- DOLLY SODOM
- John Kaiine
- THE ROBOT WHO LOOKED LIKE ME
- Robert Sheckley
- MISS BOKKO
- Bokko-chan
- Shinichi Hoshi
- THE DANCING PARTNER
- Jerome K. Jerome
- SATISFACTION
- Nicholas Sheppard
- NANONAUTS! IN BATTLE WITH TINY DEATH-SUBS!
- Ian McDonald
- MASKED
- Rich Larson
- THE TURING TEST
- Chris Beckett
- SELF PORTRAIT
- Bernard Wolfe
- MANEKI NEKO
- Bruce Sterling
- "REPENT, HARLEQUIN!" SAID THE TICKTOCKMAN
- Harlan Ellison
- THE MACHINE STOPS
- E. M. Forster
- 1. THE AIR-SHIP
- 2. THE MENDING APPARATUS
- 3. THE HOMELESS
- SECTION FIVE: ALL HAIL THE NEW FLESH
- THE HAMMER
- Carl Sandburg
- GOOD TO GO
- Liz Jensen
- TENDER
- Rachel Swirsky
- MASKS
- Damon Knight
- HOSTBODS
- Tendai Huchu
- SCANNERS LIVE IN VAIN
- Cordwainer Smith
- MUSÉE DE L'ÂME SEULE
- E. Lily Yu
- THE WINTER MARKET
- William Gibson
- THE ONE WHO ISN'T
- Ted Kosmatka
- SUICIDE COAST
- M. John Harrison
- MEMORIES AND WIRE
- Mari Ness
- GANGER (BALL LIGHTNING)
- Nalo Hopkinson
- LEARNING TO BE ME
- Greg Egan
- NO WOMAN BORN
- C. L. Moore
- FLIGHT
- Joanna Kavenna
- PRAXIS
- Karen Joy Fowler
- TONGTONG'S SUMMER
- Xia Jia
- THESE 5 BOOKS GO 6 FEET DEEP
- Ted Hayden
- SECTION SIX: SUCCESSION
- DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES
- Samuel Butler
- MECHANOPOLIS
- Miguel de Unamuno
- BIG DAVE'S IN LOVE
- T. D. Edge
- I, ROW-BOAT
- Cory Doctorow
- FULFILLMENT
- A. E. van Vogt
- MAKING THE CONNECTIONS
- Barry N. Malzberg
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- DIRECTOR X AND THE THRILLING WONDERS OF OUTER SPACE
- Brian Trent
- THE NEXT MOVE
- John Cooper Hamilton
- LIKE YOU, I AM A SYSTEM
- Nathan Hillstrom
- MY FAVOURITE SENTIENCE
- Marissa Lingen
- LONDON, PARIS, BANANA
- Howard Waldrop
- LOST MEMORY
- Peter Phillips
- STARCROSSED
- George Zebrowski
- THE NARROW ROAD
- Tad Williams
- THE GOLEM
- by Avram Davidson
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- NON-FICTION
- FICTION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- EXTENDED COPYRIGHT
- About the Author
- An Invitation from the Publisher
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