The new one (still looking for a name) gets a job at a café – and finds themself fascinated by dogs. The older one, a very reluctant mentor, is named Constant Killer, and, well – you can guess their job. Vina JieMin Prasad‘s ” A Guide for Working Breeds” is mostly dialogue between two robots – a veteran mentor and a newly constructed one. The book opens particularly strongly, with two very different but very impressive pieces. I could probably cover all the stories here, but in this space I must limit myself to just a few. (Ellen Datlow probably retains that title for fantasy and certainly for horror.) Strahan’s new anthology is Made to Order, on the subject of robots and mostly their desire for liberation, for autonomy, and while that implies stories about robots righteously overthrowing their masters (us!) – and certainly there are some such – the ways this and similar themes are wielded here are much more varied. I don’t think there can be any doubt that the best currently working original anthologist of science fiction is Jonathan Strahan. (Solaris) March 2020.Īnthropocene Rag, Alex Irvine (Tor.com Publishing) March 2020.
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