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Tachyon Publications
Description
"Your Future Is Bright! After all, your mother is a robot, your father has joined the alien hive mind, and your dinner will be counterfeit 3D-printed steak. Even though your worker bots have staged a mutiny, and your tour guide speaks only in memes, you can always sell your native language if you need some extra cash." --
User reviews
LibraryThing member rivkat
Excellent collection with a number of award-winning stories, including Suzanne Palmer’s The Secret Life of Bots (service and heroism even when you’re considered outdated), S. Qiouyi Lu’s Mother Tongues (when you can sell your knowledge of your basic language to buy your child’s future, what
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should you do?), Rebecca Roanhorse’s Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience TM (also about selling your culture to survive, though very differently), Kelly Robson’s A Study in Oils (surviving the doing of a horrible act in a destructive culture), and a number of others, including Sarah Pinsker and Amar El-Mohtar. Overall, delivers on its promise. Show Less
LibraryThing member Dreesie
An excellent collection of 20 short stories by new authors. Every one was good, and now I have many new authors to explore the works of!
My favorites:
The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri: A trans man from a family of female time-travelers
Mother Tongues by S Qiou-yi Lu: A woman sells her fluent
A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad: Helena and Lily, steak forgers
The Secret Life of Bots by Suzanne Palma: an old retired bot is brought back into use due to desperate times
Strange Waters by Samantha Mills: Mika, a fisherwoman in time, is trying to get home
But really, every story was good, and every author in this anthology writes interesting stuff.
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Thanks to NetGalley and Tachyon for the egalley
My favorites:
The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri: A trans man from a family of female time-travelers
Mother Tongues by S Qiou-yi Lu: A woman sells her fluent
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Mandarin to send her daughter to collegeA Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad: Helena and Lily, steak forgers
The Secret Life of Bots by Suzanne Palma: an old retired bot is brought back into use due to desperate times
Strange Waters by Samantha Mills: Mika, a fisherwoman in time, is trying to get home
But really, every story was good, and every author in this anthology writes interesting stuff.
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Thanks to NetGalley and Tachyon for the egalley
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LibraryThing member JesseTheK
Good variety of stories, most published online. Easier to focus when in print!
Original publication date
2019-11-05
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