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A collection of shockingly prescient stories covering topics from aliens to AI, including some that have never before been seen, from theNew York Timesbest-selling author of the Silo trilogy
Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling novelWool,and then with other enthralling works such asSandandBeacon 23.
Now comesMachine Learning, an impressive collection of Howeys science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the world ofWool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this volume, and fifteen additional stories collected here for the first time. “Glitch” asks what happens when a battle bot refuses to fight. The Automated Ones introduces ideas of discrimination in a world populated by both humans and AI, and its sequel WHILE (u > i) i ; explores the challenges a human woman and an android face after falling in love. In “Select Character” a new mother who is bored with being stuck at home starts playing her husbands’ video game according to her own rules– and makes a surprising discovery. These stories explore everything from artificial intelligence to parallel universes to video games, and each story is accompanied by an authors note exploring the background and genesis of each story.
Howeys incisive mind makesMachine Learning: New and Collected Storiesa compulsively readable and thought-provoking selection of short worksfrom a modern master at the top of his game.
