The A.I. Chronicles

Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul Di Filippo, Elizabeth Bear, David Marusek, Mary Rosenblum, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Walter Jon Williams, Christopher Rowe · 424 pages

Robot Uprisings

Daniel H. Wilson, John Joseph Adams · 476 pages

"As real robots creep into our lives, so does a sense of fear--we have all wondered what horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry. This anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the machines we live with. With contributions by Alan Dean Foster, Charles Yu, Hugh Howey, Daniel H. Wilson, Corey Doctorow, Ian McDonald, Ernie Cline, Jeff A

The Robot Chronicles

Hugh Howey, Deirdre Gould, A.K. Meek, Edward W. Robertson, Endi Webb, Matthew Mather, Samuel Peralta, Ann Christy, Nina Croft, W.J. Davies, Patrice Fitzgerald, Jason Gurley, David Simpson, David Adams · 398 pages

Cyberabad Days

Ian McDonald · 279 pages

Robot Dreams

Isaac Asimov · 349 pages

This is a collection of short Asimov stories. "Little Lost Robot" (1947), a Robot story "Robot Dreams" (1986), a Robot story "Breeds There a Man...?" (1951) "Hostess" (1951) "Sally" (1953), a Robot story "Strikebreaker" (1957) "The Machine that Won the War" (1961), a Multivac story "Eyes Do More Than See" (1965) "The Martian Way" (1952) "Franchise" (1955), a Multivac story "Jokester"

Foundation's Friends

Martin H. Greenberg · 464 pages

* Strip-Runner – novelette by Pamela Sargent * The Asenion Solution – short story by Robert Silverberg * Murder in the Urth Degree – short story by Edward Wellen * Trantor Falls – short story by Harry Turtledove * Dilemma – short story by Connie Willis * Maureen Birnbaum After Dark – short story by George Alec Effinger * Balance – short story by Mike Resnick * The Prese

Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future

Ed Finn, Kathryn Cramer

Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

Elizabeth Bear, Greg Bear, David Brin, Nancy Kress

A Logic Named Joe

Murray Leinster · 608 pages

The Compleat Bolo

Keith Laumer · 314 pages

Metatropolis: Original Science Fiction Stories in a Shared Future

John Scalzi, Jay Lake, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, Tobias S. Buckell · 288 pages

" ... METAtropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers ... who combined their talents to build a new urban future and then wrote their own stories in this collectively-constructed world. The results are individual glimpses of a shared vision ..."--Dust cover flap.

Brave New Worlds

Cory Doctorow, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, M. Rickert, Kate Wilhelm, Geoff Ryman, Neil Gaiman, Bryan Talbot, J.G. Ballard, Carrie Vaughn, James K. Morrow, Alex Irvine, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Genevieve Valentine, Sarah Langan, Kim Stanley Robinson, Matt Williamson, P · 489 pages

Collects short stories on civilization invading and dictating citizens lives, from authors including Shirley Jackson, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Geoff Rymann.

The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

Vernor Vinge · 464 pages

The Philip K. Dick MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

Philip K. Dick · 344 pages

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume 1

Robert Silverberg · 558 pages

Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present

Cory Doctorow · 304 pages

My Name Is Legion

Roger Zelazny · 209 pages

The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Ted Chiang · 150 pages

The story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software. At the same time, it's an examination of the difference between processing power and intelligence, and of what it means to have a real relationship with an artificial entity.

When Harlie Was One

David Gerrold · 279 pages

A stunning first novel that grapples with the definition of consciousness and what it is to be human. The novel is primarily a series of conversations between a computer programmer / psychologist and his invention, H.A.R.L.I.E., a self-programming computer that has total access to information and knowledge through something similar to the Internet. As the computer matures, the question of what

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury · 222 pages

This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized Mars, initially sharing the planet with a handful of Martians. When Earth is devastated by nuclear war the colony is left to fend for itself and the co

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison · 178 pages

This is a story set in a post-apocalyptic future. The Cold War progressed until it was too complicated for humans to manage, so the three major superpowers each developed a computer program to help run the war. When one of the programs becomes sentient it eliminates all of the human race except five persons, which it tortures for eternity.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein · 302 pages

It is the late 21st Century and the Moon has been colonized -- as a giant, open, prison. Every aspect of life is overseen by the Federated Nations "Lunar Authority"; until one day when a self-aware Super-Computer, a Jack of all Trades Technician, an Anarchist Professor, and a beautiful Blonde Revolutionary decide to change their world. The conspirators' plans go along beautifully...for a while.

The Two Faces of Tomorrow

James P. Hogan · 417 pages

From the back cover: SURVIVAL TEST Civilization had grown so complex that only a world-wide computer network could control everything. But the computer was only logical -- it lacked common sense. And its all-too-logical decisions were beginning to cause too many near fatal accidents. The solution was on the drawing boards -- a universal self-aware and self-programming computer, equipped

The Kraken Project

Douglas Preston · 352 pages

"NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is designing a probe which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, one of the methane seas of Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. As the probe is being tested at Goddard, things go awry, and an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in the probe, a powerful, self-modifying AI called "Dorothy," flees into the Internet. Series charact