PETER WATTS Praise for Jonathan Strahan: “Breath-taking, staggering, sublime.” Tor.com “A stand-out collection that should be of interest to any admirer of short fiction, regardless of genre…” The Guardian “Short stories have been the lifeblood of science fiction since HG Wells, and Solaris are maintaining the tradition.” Financial Times “Jonathan Strahan’s Infinity books stand with the very best original anthology series ever in the field. Jonathan Strahan Made to Order: Robots and Revolution Paperback Maby John Chu (Author), Daryl Gregory (Author), Alice Sola Kim (Author), 136 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 6.49 Read with Our Free App Paperback 11.99 9 Used from 7.72 14 New from 8. Strahan’s new anthology is Made to Order, on the subject of robots and mostly their desire for liberation, for autonomy, and while that implies stories about robots righteously overthrowing their masters (us) and certainly there are some such the ways this and similar themes are wielded here are much more varied.

This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where hope and optimism shines through.

They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. Her other novel is Cloudbound (2016).100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, “robots” are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games.

Her novel Updraft (2015) won the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy (2016). Jonathan Strahan (Editor), Timons Esaias (Contributor) 3.88 112 ratings26 reviews Multi-award-winning editor and Locus Magazine critic Jonathan Strahan presents the second definitive collection of best short science fiction. Some of her short stories include Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud, published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Ghost Tide Chantey on Tor.com, You are Two Point Three Meters from Your Destination, published in Uncanny, and How to Walk through Historic Graveyards in the Digital Age, published in Asimov's Science Fiction. She writes for the blog GeekMom and runs the blog and podcast for Cooking the Books. Her previous jobs included a sailing instructor, Jewel's assistant, teacher, professor, and web and game developer. Booktopia Bookshop search results for Jonathan Strahan. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a BA in English with Honors, Warren Wilson College with a MFA in poetry, and the University of Baltimore with a Masters in Information Architecture and Interior Design. Fran Wilde was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Made to Order by Jonathan Strahan