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 examines how artificial intelligence both saves and destroys
humanity.