Ya está a la venta More Human than Human, una antología seleccionada por Neil Clarke que incluye relatos de autores como Elizabeth Bear, Ian McDonald, Ken Liu o Alastair Reynolds.
Estos son sus contenidos y sinopsis:
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 Childrenand 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.
Table of Contents
IntroductionDolly — Elizabeth BearA Good Home — Karin LowacheeThe Djinn’s Wife — Ian McDonaldAnd The Ends of The Earth For Thy Possession — Robert B. FinegoldPatterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points — JY YangThe Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees — John BarnesFixing Hanover — Jeff VanderMeerGrand Jeté (The Great Leap) — Rachel SwirskyBrisk Money — Adam ChristopherAct of Faith — Fadzlishah JohanabasThe Caretaker — Ken LiuSeven Sexy Cowboy Robots — Sandra McDonaldWe, Robots — Sue LangeThe Education of Junior Number 12 — Madeline AshbyA Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight — Xia JiaThe Man — Paul McAuleyThe Robot’s Girl — Brenda Cooper.identity — E. Catherine ToblerAmerican Cheetah — Robert ReedArtifice — Naomi KritzerSmall Medicine — Genevieve ValentineSilently and Very Fast — Catherynne M. ValenteI, Robot — Cory DoctorowBit Rot — Charles StrossAngels of Ashes — Alastair ReynoldsThe Old Dispensation — Lavie TidharToday I am Paul — Martin L. Shoemaker
