Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
Epigraph
Section One
It’s Alive!
Chayim Bloch
The Golem Runs Amuck
Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Fandom for Robots
Ambrose Bierce
Moxon’s Master
H. G. Wells
The Land Ironclads
Emile Goudeau
The Revolt of the Machines
Theodore Sturgeon
Microcosmic God
Michael Swanwick
Ancient Engines
Mike Resnick
Beachcomber
Stanisław Lem
Non Serviam
Adam Roberts
Adam Robots
James Blish
Solar Plexus
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
I Made You
Herman Melville
The Bell Tower
Algis Budrys
First to Serve
Peter Watts
Malak
Arundhati Hazra
The Toymaker’s Daughter
Section Two
Following the Money
Stephen Vincent Benét
Nightmare Number Three
Jack Williamson
With Folded Hands
Charles Dickens
Full Report of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything Section B – Display of Models and Mechanical Science
Dan Grace
Fully Automated Nostalgia Capitalism
Frederic Perkins
The Man-Ufactory
Romie Stott
A Robot Walks into a Bar
Guy Endore
Men of Iron
Fritz Leiber
A Bad Day for Sales
Rachael K. Jones
The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant
Morris Bishop
The Reading Machine
Juan Jose Arreola
Baby H.P.
John Sladek
The Steam-Driven Boy
Robert Bloch
Comfort Me, My Robot
Murray Leinster
A Logic Named Joe
Paolo Bacigalupi
Mika Model
Nick Wolven
Caspar D. Luckinbill, What Are You Going to Do?
Robert Reed
The Next Scene
Section Three
Overseer and Servant
Bruce Boston
Old Robots are the Worst
Herbert Goldstone
Virtuoso
Alexander Weinstein
Saying Goodbye to Yang
Tania Hershman
The Perfect Egg
Ken Liu
The Caretaker
Becky Hagenston
Hi Ho Cherry-O
Helena Bell
Robot
Lauren Fox
Rosie Cleans House
Brian Aldiss
Super-Toys Last All Summer Long
Adam Marek
Tamagotchi
Ray Bradbury
The Veldt
V. E. Thiessen
There Will Be School Tomorrow
W. T. Haggert
Lex
Lester Del Rey
Helen O’Loy
T. S. Bazelli
The Peacemaker
Sandra McDonald
Sexy Robot Mom
Clifford D. Simak
I Am Crying All Inside
Section Four
Changing Places
GPT-2
Transformer
Paul McAuley
The Man
Steven Popkes
The Birds of Isla Mujeres
Patrick O’Leary
That Laugh
Tobias S. Buckell
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance
John Kaiine
Dolly Sodom
Robert Sheckley
The Robot Who Looked Like Me
Shinichi Hoshi
Miss Bokko (Bokko-Chan)
Jerome K. Jerome
The Dancing Partner
Nicholas Sheppard
Satisfaction
Ian McDonald
Nanonauts! In Battle With Tiny Death-Subs!
Rich Larson
Masked
Chris Beckett
The Turing Test
Bernard Wolfe
Self Portrait
Bruce Sterling
Maneki Neko
Harlan Ellison
Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman
E. M. Forster
The Machine Stops
Section Five
All Hail The New Flesh
Carl Sandburg
The Hammer
Liz Jensen
Good to Go
Rachel Swirsky
Tender
Damon Knight
Masks
Tendai Huchu
Hostbods
Cordwainer Smith
Scanners Live in Vain
E. Lily Yu
Musée de l’Âme Seule
William Gibson
The Winter Market
Ted Kosmatka
The One Who Isn’t
M. John Harrison
Suicide Coast
Mari Ness
Memories and Wire
Nalo Hopkinson
Ganger (Ball Lightning)
Greg Egan
Learning to Be Me
C. L. Moore
No Woman Born
Joanna Kavenna
Flight
Karen Joy Fowler
Praxis
Xia Jia
Tongtong’s Summer
Ted Hayden
These 5 Books Go 6 Feet Deep
Section Six
Succession
Samuel Butler
Darwin Among the Machines
Miguel de Unamuno
Mechanopolis
Terry Edge
Big Dave’s in Love
Cory Doctorow
I, Row-Boat
A. E. van Vogt
Fulfillment
Barry N. Malzberg
Making the Connections
Brian Trent
Director X and the Thrilling Wonders of Outer Space
John Cooper Hamilton
The Next Move
Nathan Hillstrom
Like You, I Am A System
Marissa Lingen
My Favourite Sentience
Howard Waldrop
London, Paris, Banana
Peter Philips
Lost Memory
George Zebrowski
Starcrossed
Tad Williams
The Narrow Road
Avram Davidson
The Golem
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Extended Copyright
About the Author
An Invitation from the Publisher