**From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *Robopocalypse* comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life. A VINTAGE BOOKS ORIGINAL.** In "All Kinds of Proof," a down-and-
Guardian Angels and Other Monsters
โ Scribed by Daniel H. Wilson
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2018;2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 159 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1101972025
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โฆ Synopsis
From the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life. A VINTAGE BOOKS ORIGINAL.
In "All Kinds of Proof," a down-and-out drunk makes the unlikeliest of friends when he is hired to train a mail-carrying robot; in "Blood Memory," a mother confronts the dangerous reality that her daughter will never assimilate in this world after she was the first child born through a teleportation device; in "The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever," a physicist rushes home to be with his daughter after he hears reports of an atmospheric anomaly which he knows to be a sign of the end of the earth; in "Miss Gloria," a robot comes back to life in many different forms in a quest to save a young girl. Guardian Angels and Other Monsters displays the depth and breadth of Daniel H. Wilson's vision and...
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