Амброз Бирс - We, Robots

Liz Jensen: "Good to Go" published in Arc 1.4: Forever alone drone , 2012. Reproduced by permission of Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd.

Xia Jia: "Tongtong’s Summer," translated by Ken Liu. First published in Upgraded 2014, copyright © 2014 by Xia Jia. Reproduced by permission of the author and translator.

Rachael K. Jones: "The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant" published in Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 91, December 2017. Reproduced by permission of the author.

John Kaiine: "Dolly Sodom" published in Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex, 1996. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Joanna Kavenna: "Flight", published in Arc 2.3 . Reproduced by permission of the author.

Damon Knight: "Masks" first published in Playboy , July 1968, copyright © 2019, InfinityBox Press LLC. Published by arrangement with InfinityBox Press LLC.

Ted Kosmatka: "The One Who Isn’t" from Lightspeed , July 2016. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Rich Larson: "Masked" published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Issue 07, 2016. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Murray Leinster: "A Logic Named Joe" published in Astounding Science Fiction , 1946. Reproduced by permission of MBA Literary Agents.

Marissa K. Lingen (Gritter): "My Favourite Sentience" published in Nature , April 2018. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Ken Liu: "The Caretaker" originally published in First Contact: Digital Science Fiction Anthology 1 , copyright © 2011 by Ken Liu. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Stanisław Lem: "Non Serviam" published in Perfect Vacuum , copyright © 1971 by Stanisław Lem, English translation © 1978, 1979 by Stanisław Lem. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Barry N. Malzberg: "Making the Connections" originally published in Continuum 4 , ed Roger Elwood, copyright © 1975 by Roger Elwood. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Adam Marek: "Tamagotchi" published in The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease , 2008. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Paul McAuley: "The Man" originally published in Arc 1.2 / Post Human Conditions, copyright © 2012 by Paul McAuley. Reproduced by permission of Mic Cheetham Literary Agency.

Ian McDonald: "Nanonauts! In Battle With Tiny Death-Subs!" published in Robot Uprisings , 2014. Reproduced by permission of The Zeno Agency.

Sandra McDonald: "Sexy Robot Mom" published in Asimov’s Science Fiction , April–May 2012. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.: "I Made You" published in Astounding Science Fiction , March 1954, ed. John W. Campbell, Jr., Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Abner Stein.

C. L. Moore: "No Woman Born" first published in Astounding Science Fiction , December 1944, ed. John W. Campbell, Jr., Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Abner Stein.

Patrick O’Leary: "That Laugh" published in We Think, Therefore We Are , 2009. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Peter Phillips: "Lost Memory", copyright © 1952 by Quinn Publishing Corp, © 1980 by Peter Phillips. Reproduced by permission of the author’s agent, Barry N. Malzberg.

Steven Popkes: "The Birds of Isla Mujeres" published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , January 2003. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Vina Jie-Min Prasad: "Fandom for Robots" published in Uncanny Magazine , Issue 18, September–October 2017. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Mari Ness: "Memories and Wire" published in Upgraded, 2014. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Robert Reed: "The Next Scene" published in Clarkesworld Magazine , #121, October 2016, copyright © Robert Reed. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Mike Resnick: "Beachcomber," first published in Chrysalis 8, ed. Roy Torgeson, Doubleday, 1980. Reproduced by permission of Spectrum Literary Agency.

Adam Roberts: "Adam Roberts" published in We Think, Therefore We Are , 2009. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Carl Sandburg: "The Hammer" from The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg , copyright © 1969, 1970 by Lillian Steichen Sandburg. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Robert Sheckley: "The Robot Who Looked Like Me" published in Cosmopolitan , August 1973, copyright © 1973 by Robert Sheckley. Reproduced by permission of Donald Maass Literary Agency. All rights reserved.

Nicholas Paul Sheppard: ‘Satisfaction" first published in AntipodeanSF , Issue 236, March 2018. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Clifford D. Simak: "I Am Crying All Inside" published in Galaxy Magazine , August 1969. Reprinted by permission of Pollinger Limited (www.pollingerlimited.com) on behalf of the Estate of Clifford D Simak.

John Sladek: "The Steam-Driven Boy" published in Nova 2 , 1972. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of the author.

Cordwainer Smith: "Scanners Live in Vain" first published in Fantasy Book , Vol. 1, No. 6, ed. Garret Ford, Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., 1950. Reproduced by permission of Spectrum Literary Agency.

Bruce Sterling: "Maneki Neko" published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , May 1998. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Romie Stott: "A Robot Walks into a Bar" published in Arc 1.4 / Forever Alone Drone, 2012. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Theodore Sturgeon: "Microcosmic God" published in Astounding Science-Fiction 1941. Published by permission of The Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust c/o The Lotts Agency, Ltd.

Michael Swanwick: "Ancient Engines" published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine , February 1999, copyright © 1998. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Rachel Swirsky: "Tender" published in Upgraded , 2014. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Brian Trent: "Director X and the Thrilling Wonders of Outer Space" published in All Hail Our Robot Conquerors! 2017. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Miguel De Unamuno: "Mechanopolis," 1913, translated by Patricia Hart from Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain , edited by Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, copyright © 2003 Wesleyan University Press. Published by Wesleyan University Press. Used with permission.

A. E. van Vogt: "Fulfillment" first published in New Tales of Space and Time , 1951. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of the author and Ashley Grayson Agency.

Howard Waldrop: "London, Paris, Banana" published in Amazing Stories , Winter 2000. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Peter Watts: "Malak" published in Engineering Infinity , 2010, ed. Jonathan Strahan Solaris. Reproduced by permission of the author.