Амброз Бирс - We, Robots

Yevgeny Zamyatin (trans. Clarence Brown), We , [1920–1] 1993, Penguin Classics

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Brian Aldiss: "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" published in Harper’s Bazaar , 1969, copyright © 1969 by Brian Aldiss. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of The Executors of the Estate of Brian Aldiss.

Juan Jose Arreola: "Baby H. P.," 1913, translated by Andrea L. Bell from Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain , edited by Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, copyright © 2003 by Wesleyan University Press. Published by Wesleyan University Press. Used with permission.

Paolo Bacigalupi: "Mika Model" published in Slate, 2016. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency, Inc.

T.S. Bazelli: "The Peacemaker" published in Lightspeed: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! 2016. Reproduced by permission of Samantha B. Literary Agency.

Chris Beckett: "The Turing Test" published in Interzone , #183, October 2002. Reproduced by permission of John Jarrold Agency.

Helena Bell: "Robot" published in Clarkesworld Magazine , #72, September 2012. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Stephen Vincent Benét: "Nightmare Number Three," copyright © 1935, renewed 1963 by Thomas C. Benet, Rachel B. Lewis, Stephanie B. Mahin. Used by permission of Brandt and Hochman Literary Agents, Inc. Any copying or distribution of this text is expressly forbidden. All rights reserved.

Morris Bishop: "The Reading Machine" published in The New Yorker, March 1947. Reproduced by permission of Margaretta Jolly.

James Blish: "Solar Plexus" first published in Astonishing Stories , September 1941. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of James Blish and the Heather Chalcroft Literary Agency.

Robert Bloch: "Comfort Me, My Robot" published in Imagination , 1955. Reproduced by permission of Richard Henshaw Group LLC.

Bruce Boston: "Old Robots are the Worst," published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine , October 1989. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Ray Bradbury: "The Veldt" originally appearing as "The World the Children Made" in The Saturday Evening Post , September 1950. Republished in The Illustrated Man , 1951. Reproduced by permission of Abner Stein.

Tobias S. Buckell: "Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance" published in Cosmic Powers , 2017. Reproduced by permission of Liza Dawson Associates LLC.

Algis Budrys: "First to Serve" published in Astounding Science Fiction , May 1954. Reproduced by permission of The Zeno Agency.

Avram Davidson: "The Golem" published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , March 1955. Reproduced by permission of Darrell Schweitzer/Owlswick Literary Agency.

Lester Del Rey: "Helen O’Loy," copyright © 1938, 1966 by Lester del Rey; first appeared in Astounding. Reprinted by permission of Wildside Press and the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

Cory Doctorow: "I, Row-Boat" originally published in Flurb #1, copyright © 2006 by Cory Doctorow. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Terry Edge: "Big Dave’s in Love" published in Arc 1.2 / Post Human Conditions , 2012. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Greg Egan: "Learning to Be Me" first published in Interzone #37 , July 1990, copyright © 1990 by Greg Egan. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Harlan Ellison: "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman" originally published in Galaxy Magazine , December 1965, copyright © 1965 by Galaxy Publishing Corporation. Copyright reassigned to Author 16 April 1968. Renewed, 1992 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation. Reprinted with permission of, and by arrangement with, The Kilimanjaro Corporation. All rights reserved. Harlan Ellison is a registered trademarks of The Kilimanjaro Corporation.

Guy Endore: "Men of Iron" first published in The Magazine of Fantasy , Fall 1949. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of the author.

E. M. Forster: "The Machine Stops" 1909. Reproduced by permission of The Provost and Scholars of King’s College, Cambridge and The Society of Authors as the E. M. Forster Estate.

Karen Joy Fowler: "Praxis" first published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine , March 1985. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Lauren Grace Fox: "Rosie Cleans House" published in All Hail Our Robot Conquerors ! 2017. Reproduced with permission of the author.

William Gibson: "The Winter Market" published in Vancouver Magazine , November 1985. Reproduced by permission of The Orion Publishing Group, London.

Herbert Goldstone: "Virtuoso" published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , February 1953. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of the author.

Emile Goudeau: "The Revolt of the Machines," translated by Brian Stableford in The Revolt of the Machines, 2014. Reproduced by permission of Brian Stableford.

Dan Grace: "Fully Automated Nostalgia Capitalism" published in Interzone , #273, November–December 2017. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Becky Hagenston: "Hi Ho Cherry-O" first published in Witness , XXXI Vol 1, Spring 2018. Reproduced with permission of the author.

John Cooper Hamilton: "The Next Move" published in Daily Science Fiction , April 2018. Reproduced by permission of the author.

M. John Harrison: "Suicide Coast" published in Fantasy & Science Fiction , ed van Gelder, 1999. Reproduced by permission of Mic Cheetham Literary Agency.

Ted Hayden: "These 5 Books Go 6 Feet Deep" published in Nature , February, 2018. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Arundhati Hazra: "The Toymaker’s Daughter" originally published in the March/April 2017 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction . Reproduced by permission of the author.

Tania Hershman: "The Perfect Egg" published in Nature , January 2011. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Nathan Hillstrom: "Like You, I Am A System" published in Interzone , #270, May–June 2017. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Nalo Hopkinson: "Ganger (Ball Lightning)" published in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora , Aspect, 2000. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Shinichi Hoshi: "Bokko-Chan", copyright © 1958 The Hoshi Library English translation by Marina Hoshi Whyte. Reproduced by permission of Japan Foreign-Rights Centre.

T. L. Huchu: "HostBods" published in Omenana , #1, 2014. Reproduced by permission of the author.