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Search - More Human than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity

More Human than Human Stories of Androids Robots and Manufactured Humanity
Author: Neil Clarke (Editor)

The idea of creating an artificial human is an old one. One of the earliest science-fictional novels, Frankenstein, concerned itself primarily with the hubris of creation, and one's relationship to one's creator. Later versions of this 'artificial human' story (and indeed later adaptations of Frankenstein) changed the focus to mo... more »re modernist questions: What is the nature of humanity? What does it mean to be human? These stories continued through the golden age of science fiction with Isaac Asimov's I Robot story cycle, and then through post-modern iterations from new wave writers like Philip K. Dick. Today, this compelling science fiction trope persists in mass media narratives like Westworld and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, as well as twenty-first century science fiction novels like Charles Stross's Saturn's Children and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl. 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.

Contents:

Dolly (2011) / short story by Elizabeth Bear
A Good Home (2016) / short story by Karin Lowachee
The Djinn's Wife [India 2047] (2006) / novelette by Ian McDonald
And the Ends of the Earth for Thy Possession (2015) / novelette by Robert B. Finegold
Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points (2016) / short story by JY Yang
The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees (2010) / novella by John Barnes
Fixing Hanover (2008) / novelette by Jeff VanderMeer
Grand Jeté (The Great Leap) (2014) / novella by Rachel Swirsky
Brisk Money [Ray Electromatic Mysteries] (2014) / novelette by Adam Christopher
Act of Faith (2010) / short story by Fadzlishah Johanabas
The Caretaker (2011) / short story by Ken Liu
Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots (2010) / short story by Sandra McDonald
We, Robots (2007) / novella by Sue Lange
The Education of Junior Number 12 [Machine Dynasties] (2011) / novelette by Madeline Ashby
A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight (2012) / short story by Xia Jia (trans. of ç¾é¬¼å¤è¡è¡ 2010)
The Man [Jackaroo] (2012) / short fiction by Paul J. McAuley
The Robot's Girl (2010) / novelette by Brenda Cooper
.identity (2016) / short story by E. Catherine Tobler
American Cheetah (2008) / novelette by Robert Reed
Artifice (2014) / short story by Naomi Kritzer
Small Medicine (2014) / short story by Genevieve Valentine
Silently and Very Fast (2011) / novella by Catherynne M. Valente
I, Robot (2005) / novelette by Cory Doctorow
Bit Rot [Saturn's Children] (2010) / novelette by Charles Stross
Angels of Ashes (1999) / novelette by Alastair Reynolds
The Old Dispensation (2017) / short story by Lavie Tidhar
Today I Am Paul (2015) / short story by Martin L. Shoemaker

ISBN-13: 9781597809146
ISBN-10: 1597809144
Publication Date: 11/7/2017
Pages: 672
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Publisher: Night Shade Books
Book Type: Paperback
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