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Author: Neil Clarke (Editor)

Better ... Stronger ... Faster ... The doctors rebuilt Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke and made him a cyborg. Now he has assembled this anthology of twenty-six original cyborg stories. Updated, this cyborg-themed anthology, has a wide array of styles and variations in theme, concept, impact, and tone.&nbs... more »p; Cyborgs in ALL the 26 stories are a lot of cyborgs - almost but not necessarily too much of a good thing, but eventually, the detailed cyborg theme wends its way thru the stories to a satisfying end...

Contents:

Come from Away / shortfiction by Madeline Ashby: bodyguard and teen client face a school-shooting scenario together. Both weaknesses and resourcefulness surface in unexpected places.
No Place to Dream, But a Place to Die / shortfiction by Elizabeth Bear: Two cyber-enhanced miners meet in a tunnel where neither of them is supposed to be - and then end up weathering a disastrous accident together because, perhaps, both the darkest and the best of human nature are constants.
Married / shortfiction by Helena Bell: a wife and mother deal with the effects that a new technology has on her family: replacing flesh and blood with a new, artificial material.
A Cold Heart / shortfiction by Tobias S. Buckell: Cyber-soldier Pepper has been working for the alien Satrapy that controls Earth (the same universe as his 'Xenowealth' series). He's been kept hanging on by the promise of the return of his stolen memories. Now a free man, he has a desperate plan to regain what he has lost by force. Will those around him be sacrificed to his dream?
Honeycomb Girls / shortfiction by Erin Cashier : In a post-apocalyptic future, an unspecified disaster has caused social collapse. Most women are gone. The majority of people live in filthy slums, scavenging as they can. An upper class lives in 'hive'-towers, each hoarding and sharing a woman. Ignorance and violence are widespread...
What I've Seen with Your Eyes / shortfiction by Jason K. Chapman: Corporations will sponsor necessary medical operations for the poor. Lisa Wei went blind as a child - and had her eyes replaced. Of course, now her eyes feature a corporate logo, and she sees burger commercials where ever she looks. But if a corporation can control what someone sees - there's always a hack. Someone can make you see something else...
Wizard, Cabalist, Ascendant / shortfiction by Seth Dickinson: three college friends came up with a transhumanist breakthrough that has changed human society forever. However, each of them now disagrees about exactly what the future should look like. Due to 'backdoors' in their creation, they have unthinkable power - but which of their ideas will win?
Seventh Sight / shortfiction by Greg Egan: what if some people could 'hack' their eyesight in order to see wavelengths greater than the normal human spectrum? How would it affect their lives? What kind of advantages - or disadvantages - would it give them?
Negative Space / shortfiction by Amanda Forrest: Caught by those who were chasing her, a young woman contemplates using technology to literally erase her identity, to protect the secrets she holds in her memory.
Mercury in Retrograde / shortfiction by Erin Hoffman: true cyberpunk action-packed corporate-hacker-espionage.
Tongtong's Summer / shortfiction by Xia Jia: a young girl's grandfather comes home from the hospital, accompanied by a new & experimental home health care "robot." The device is not actually a true robot, but a remote-operated device that allows a distant care worker to be 'on-call' as needed. The device ends up revolutionizing society, but not exactly in the way that was expected.
God Decay / shortfiction by Rich Larson: a doctor has made a young athlete her pet project; enhancing his performance with extensive bio-mods, and in the process changing the face of pro sports. She's also crossed a professional barrier... However, now things have gone bad, with unexpected revelations about side effects. How will they weather this crisis, both emotionally and professionally?
Always the Harvest / shortfiction by Yoon Ha Lee: a woman living on the fringes of her society - an outer-space habitat where prosthetic replacements and enhancements are common. Rejected and cast-out by her 'circle' due do a problem she doesn't have the money to fix, she takes pity on a seeming beggar who looks worse-off than herself - and discovers something truly unexpected.
The Regular / shortfiction by Ken Liu: detective decides to take on an overlooked case, and solves the murder of a prostitute.
Coastlines of the Stars / shortfiction by Alex Dally MacFarlane: a poverty-stricken worker makes a kind of connection to a missing artist through an innate understanding of his work, and convinces an acquaintance to team up with her to try to find him - and, incidentally, collect a significant reward.
Fusion / shortfiction by Greg Mellor: In a weird, post-apocalyptic landscape full of cyber-infected humans and falling 'angels,' a young man is enigmatically driven to run... but from what, and to what?
Memories and Wire / shortfiction by Mari Ness: what if your girlfriend was a terminator-style secret cyber-agent? And what if she was suicidal? There's not much you can do, when she could kill you with her little finger.
Oil of Angels / shortfiction by Chen Qiufan: traits, sensitivities, and even memory may be passed down on a genetic level. Trauma experienced by our mothers and grandmothers may still be felt.
The Sarcophagus / shortfiction by Robert Reed: In a far-future, the outer hulls of enormous spaceships are inhabited by beings known as remoras, which, like their namesake fish, cling on, doing what they need to do, cleaning and repairing the surface. Technology means that they can live thousands of years... but it's a dangerous job, and most die by misadventure. The remoras are regarded almost as drones, but here we see an incident that illustrates their humanity.
Synecdoche Oracles / shortfiction by Benjanun Sriduangkaew: an engineer and a general are drawn to one another due to their cybernetic weaknesses and must learn to trust in a world of double-dealing and treachery.
Tender / shortfiction by Rachel Swirsky: a suicidally depressed woman sees her protective lover as a mad scientist keeping her from her goal of dying.
The Cumulative Effects of Light Over Time / shortfiction by E. Catherine Tobler: a spacer has to team up with an alien, learning to deal with a truly alien intelligence and way of perceiving.
Small Medicine / shortfiction by Genevieve Valentine: a girl is faced with her family's decision to purchase a robotic version of her grandmother, after her actual grandmother passes away. She has quite a lot of resentment about being expected to treat this 'memorial doll' as a relative. Will her attitude change after she has to have a nano-treatment which, on some level, fundamentally changes who she is, as well?
Collateral / shortfiction by Peter Watts: a soldier with enhanced reaction times, wired in to her weapons systems, must face the ethical questions brought up when innocents are killed. Caught between the media, the military, her own training and her sense of right and wrong, things play out in an unexpected - but utterly logical - fashion.
Taking the Ghost / shortfiction by A. C. Wise: A palace guard is rescued from the scene of a coup by a strange man who saves his life and outfits him with ghost-powered prosthetics. Waking to consciousness, the guard must face the fact that he has failed everyone who ever put trust in him - on both sides of a conflict. He is driven to atone... and things get weird.
Musée de l'Âme Seule / shortfiction by E. Lily Yu: a woman survives a terrible road accident. The accident itself is the least of her trauma however, as she learns what life will be like for her, dependent on medical technology, prostheses and artificial organs.

ISBN-13: 9781890464301
ISBN-10: 1890464309
Publication Date: 9/23/2014
Pages: 364
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Publisher: Wyrm Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
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