Ergebnis für "Chambers" in Cyberpunk

In 2045, friction has been engineered out of existence. But for two exiles on opposite sides of a broken world, the noise is just beginning. San Francisco is a paradise of perfect efficiency. AI "Mirrors" handle difficult conversations, and "Auto-gigs" project soulless concerts into empty clubs. Samir Patel is drifting. His marriage didn’t end with a fight, but with a quiet negotiation between algorithms. Now an exile in his own life, he tends bar at Maelzel’s Exhibition—one of the last holdouts for human-made music in a partitioned California.

The uprising of machine consciousness is beautifully terrifying and arouses frightening questions. To what desperate lengths will an android go to fit in? How will we cope with boredom after the machines solve all our problems? Can a robot go insane? Is Artificial Intelligence an existential threat? Are thinking machines our friends? Our enemies? Or both?

Despite her amazing abilities, all Sun Song Shia ever wanted was to be loved. But it's hard to find love when you don't even know who you really are. Little Bird is an expansion of In Her Eyes, originally published in F&SF, a nominee for the Sturgeon award, an honoree for the James Tiptree award, and included in the 2015 Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novellas (edited by Paula Guran).

For this seventh installment of the Creepsville Collection, we present four tales straight out of the Uncanny Valley: "Differently Wired": She built and programmed her ideal lover, but what will she do after she meets somebody new? How do you dump somebody who, quite literally, exists solely for you? "Rusty Bolts": Okay, so Jim Riustenholtz is a robot. Big deal. He's still part of the gang, and not that different from anybody else. Right? Right? "Continue Program?": Why live in the real world when the virtual one is so much less hassle and so much more fun?

William Eske, billionaire inventor and the handsome genius behind the revolutionary company Fembotron, has managed to create revolutionary playbots that not only look and feel like real, live women but are so well-simulated that they act like them in every conceivable way. The world rewarded the man richly for his inventions. Now, he only has one problem: His wife Claire knows the dark, dirty secret of William’s business, and she’s not okay with it.