We, robots : artificial intelligence in 100 stories / chosen by Simon Ings.
| Other author | Ings, Simon, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London : Head of Zeus, 2021. |
| Copyright Date | ©2020 |
| Description | 1,010 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- 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 -- 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 Benet -- With folded hands / Jack Williamson -- Full report of the second meeting of the mudfog association ... / 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 / Rachel K. Jones -- The reading machine / Morris Bishop -- Baby H.P. / Juan Jose Arreola -- The steam-driven boy / John Sladek -- Comfort me, my robot / Robert Bloch -- A logic named joe / Murray Leinster -- Mika model / Paulo Bacigalupi -- Caspar D. Luckinbill, what are you going to do? / Nick Wolven -- 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 -- |
| Contents | 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 -- 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 -- Musee de l'ame 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 / Terry Edge -- I, row-boat / Cory Doctorow -- Fulfillment / A.E. van Vogt -- Making the connections / Barry N. Malzberg -- 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 -- Lost memory / Peter Philips -- Starcrossed / George Zebrowski -- The narrow road / Tad Williams -- The Golem / Avram Davidson. |
| Abstract | "From 1837 through to the present day, from Charles Dickens to Cory Doctorow, Simon Ings presents a hundred of the best short stories on artificial intelligence from around the world.These stories demonstrate humanity's enduring fascination with artificial creation. Crafted in our image, androids mirror our greatest hopes and darkest fears: we want our children to do better and be better than us, but we also place ourselves in jeopardy by creating beings that may eventually out-think us." -- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "An Apollo book." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Science fiction. |
| Genre/form | Short stories. |
| ISBN | 9781800249714 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1800249713 (paperback) |