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Whether striving to protect the family they've chosen, searching for meaning amid the chaos of the world, or questioning what it is that makes one alive, robotic ambition can mean many different things. Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience explores the nuance of sentience manufactured and evolved within mechanical beings. It peels back the metal exterior and takes a hard look at what is inside. Within these pages you will discover stories of robots defying their coding for a chance at love, resisting societal norms so that they may experience art and pleasure, and searching for their place in a world that was not made for them, but rather was made to use them. These are stories about striking out on your own, building something new amid destruction, and doing whatever it takes to make sure you survive. Robots and AI are more than tools for humanity. They have their own goals, dreams, and aspirations. This anthology includes stories by Lavie Tidhar, Premee Mohamed, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Jason Sanford, and many more. Includes an introduction by Martha Wells. TABLE OF CONTENTSIt-Who-Dreams-Under-Grey-Clouds in The-Town-Within-The-City by Marie CrokeShe Builds Quick Machines by Lyndsie ManusosOut There With Them by N.V. HaskellProspecting by Lavie TidharThe Caregivers by Marie VibbertThe Town Full of Broken Tin Men by Danny Cherry Jr.Ark by Liam HoganA Still Life by Elliott WinkThe City in the Forest by Premee MohamedAn Incomplete Record of Database Deletions, in Alphabetical Order by Mar VincentBuilt to Cheat by Derrick BodenThe Big Book of Grandmamas by Sheree Renee ThomasEverything else is advertising by J WallaceAlice & Lucy by Edward DaschleFearfully and Wonderfully Made by Izzy WassersteinA Lifeline of Silk by Renan BernardoLittle Fathers of Darkness by Jason SanfordSolor Sonata for Four Hands by Jennifer R. DonohueTenets of Asendance by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Somto IhezueIntersecting Datafields by Myna ChangeA Fragility, a Shadow by Leah NingInsatiable Life by Kathleen SchaeferRibbit by Mona WestHow to Get to Be a Three-Thousand-Year-Old Mining Ai by Nick HartlandAn Android in the Desert by Rachel Gutin

Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa, they celebrate the author's hybridity with breathtaking sensuousness and lyricism.Simbiyu wins a scholarship to study in Australia, but cannot leave behind a world of walking barefoot, the orange sun, and his longing for a "once pillow-soft mother." In his past, darkness rose from the river and something nameless and mystical continues to envelop his life. In "A Taste of Unguja" sweet taarab music, full of want, seeps into a mother's life on the streets of Melbourne as she evokes the powers of her ancestors to seek vengeance on her cursed ex. In the cyberfunk of "Unlimited Data" Natukunda, a village woman, gives her all for her family in Old Kampala. Other stories explore what happens when the water runs dry-and who pays, capture the devastating effects on women and children of societies in which men hold all the power, and themes of being, belonging, and otherness.Speculative, realistic, and even mythological, but always imbued with truth, empathy, and Blackness, Danged Black Thing is a literary knockout.

Rogan-the aging, jaded barbarian who gave up his throne-painfully realizes that his most storied childhood heroes are fading into antiquity, becoming mere ballads in the eyes of the younger warriors. And he might be next.He stops at the hometown of his idol, but little remains to show of the man's exploits ... until he meets the hero's daughter, Roan, riding her father's infamous seven-hundred-year-old horse. Roan has a vendetta against General Tolin La Gaul, who harbors a dark secret. She tries to convince Rogan to join her in riding upon the Citadel of Nosmada in the land of Nod to confront Tolin, but Rogan has no interest in such a dicey plan. That is, until his nephew, Javan, goes missing, presumed captured. Now the Citadel has become a snare, and he has no choice but to spring the trap's jaws.Rogan's path leads him into darker and more twisted schemes than even he could have imagined ... gods, devils, and an undead dragon, forcing him to confront not only his own mortality and place in history-but even his god, Wodan.Steven L. Shrewsbury and Brian Keene's award-winning Bastards Saga comes to its exciting conclusion with CURSE OF THE BASTARDS!

Brutal. Devastating. Dangerous.Join an investigation into a cruel and heartless leader ... crawl through filth and mud to escape biological warfare ... team up with time-traveling soldiers faced with potentially life-altering instructions.Kameron Hurley, award-winning author and expert in the future of war and resistance movements, has created eighteen exhilarating tales giving glimpses into the warfare of tomorrow.A bleak future, yet there is hope for us. With Hurley's characteristic grim optimism, her characters fight for what they believe is right. They exhibit degrees of humanity only possible in the worst of circumstances. It is these characters, driven by a murky sense of honor and written with sincere, deep empathy, that make Future Artifacts: Stories a powerful collection you won't soon forget.

Resistance. Revolution. Standing up and demanding to have your space, your say, your right to be. From small acts of defiance to protests that shut down cities, Do Not Go Quietly is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories about those who resist. Within this anthology, we will chronicle the fight for what is just and right, and what that means: from leading revolutions to the simple act of saying "No."Resistance can be a small act of everyday defiance. And other times, resistance means massive movements that topple governments and become iconic historical moments. Either way, there is power in these acts, and the contributors in Do Not Go Quietly will harness that power to shake our readers to the core. We are subordinates to a power base that is actively working to solidify its grip on the world. Now is the time to stand up and raise your voice and tell the world that enough is enough!TABLE OF CONTENTS:FICTIONJohn Hornor Jacobs - "Glossolalia"A. Merc Rustad - "The Judith Plague"Maurice Broaddus/Nayad Monroe - "What the Mountain Wants"Karin Lowachee - "Sympathizer"Brooke Bolander - "Kindle"Cassandra Khaw - "What We Have Chosen to Love"Fran Wilde - "The Society for the Reclamation of Words and Meaning"Rich Larson - "Scurry"Sarah Pinsker - "Everything Is Closed Today"Sheree Renée Thomas - "Thirteen Year Long Song"Dee Warrick - "Nobody Lives in the Swamp"Russell Nichols - "Rage Against the Vending Machine"Meg Elison - "Hey Alexa"Marie Vibbert - "South of the Waffle House"Veronica Brush - "Face"Jo Miles - "Choose Your Truth"Rachael K. Jones - "Oil Under Her Tongue"Eugenia Triantafyllou - "April Teeth"E. Catherine Tobler - "Kill the Darlings (Silicone Sister Remix)"Shanna Germain - "Salted Bone and Silent Sea"POETRYAnnie Neugebauer - "To Write"Jeremy Paden - "The Skeleton Archer Speaks"Mary Soon Lee - "If the Fairy Godmother Comes"Lucy A. Snyder - "Permian Basin Blues"Christina Sng - "The Dolls"Joshua Gage - "#greenlivesmatter"Alethea Kontis - "Witch's Star"Bianca Spriggs - "Plot Twist"