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More Human Than Human : Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity by Neil Clarke (2017, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherSkyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

ISBN-101597809144

ISBN-139781597809146

eBay Product ID (ePID)236683900

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Book TitleMore Human than Human : Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity

Number of Pages672 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Alien Contact, Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Science Fiction / General

Publication Year2017

GenreFiction

AuthorNeil Clarke

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight28.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-023270

Reviews"Well-known SF authors grace this . . . top-notch selection of imaginative and thought-provoking stories."-- Kirkus Reviews , starred review, "Well-known SF authors grace this . . . top-notch selection of imaginative and thought-provoking stories."-- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "The best of the stories gathered here by five-time Hugo nominee Clarke (founder and editor of Clarkesworld magazine) use the tropes of androids and artificial intelligence for multifaceted interrogations of humanity and society . . . Overall high quality."-- Publishers Weekly

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal808.838762

Table Of ContentTABLE OF CONTENTS "Dolly" by Elizabeth Bear "A Good Home" by Karin Lowachee "The Djinn's Wife" by Ian McDonald "And The Ends of The Earth For Thy Possession" by Robert B. Finegold "Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points" by JY Yang "The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees" by John Barnes "Fixing Hanover" by Jeff VanderMeer "Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)" by Rachel Swirsky "Brisk Money" by Adam Christopher "Act of Faith" by Fadzlishah Johanabas "The Caretaker" by Ken Liu "Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots" by Sandra McDonald "We, Robots" by Sue Lange "The Education of Junior Number 12" by Madeline Ashby "A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight" by Xia Jia "The Man" by Paul McAuley "The Robot's Girl" by Brenda Cooper ".identity" by E. Catherine Tobler "American Cheetah" by Robert Reed "Artifice" by Naomi Kritzer "Small Medicine" by Genevieve Valentine "Silently and Very Fast" by Catherynne M. Valente "I, Robot" by Cory Doctorow "Bit Rot" by Charles Stross "Angels of Ashes" by Alastair Reynolds "The Old Dispensation" by Lavie Tidhar "Today I am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker

SynopsisClarkesworld publisher Neil Clarke collects a reprint anthology of artificial human-themed short fiction., 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 more 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., Clarkesworld publisher Neil Clarke collects a reprint anthology of artificial human-themed short fiction. 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 more 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.

LC Classification NumberPN6071.S33M67 2017