Meeting Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan

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(SF) This anthology comprises sixteen works of original fiction challenged to show "how we meet infinity and survive it." In other words, how will humanity cope with technology that changes our bodies. (94,900 words; Time: 5h:16m)

Rating: ★★★★☆ 5 RSR-recommended stories + 7 others out of 16

Memento Mori, by Madeline Ashby

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(SF) Anika has a happy life in a world where people switch to new bodies when they get tired of the old ones. But someone is stalking her--maybe from her past, which she can't remember. (6,600 words; Time: 22m)

Rating: ★★★★☆, Recommended

The Falls: A Luna Story, by Ian Mcdonald

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(Hard SF; Luna) Interspersed with the narrator's account of her work on an intelligent AI for a Saturn mission, she describes how her daughter fell three kilometers on the moon. (6,800 words; Time: 22m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Recommended By: GDozois:5

Outsider, by An Owomoyela

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(SF) when an Earth ship arrives at Se after centuries with no contact, the locals struggle to understand their strange, technophobic visitor. (6,800 words; Time: 22m)

Rating: ★★★★☆ Recommended

Recommended By: NClarke

My Last Bringback, by John Barnes

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(SF) Layla, an expert on restoring the memories of people suffering from Alzheimer's, finds herself restoring her own memories--for better or for worse.. (8,000 words; Time: 26m)

Rating: ★★★★☆, Recommended
Recommended By: RHorton:5 LTilton

Exile From Extinction, by Ramez Naam

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(SF) As the war between humans and AIs comes to a violent close, you and your children flee for the stars, if you can escape pursuit. A fun read. (4,200 words; Time: 14m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆, Average

In Blue Lily's Wake, by Aliette De Bodard

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(SF; Xuya) Eleven years ago, the Blue-Lily plague devastated the Empire. Now Yen Oanh attends to unfinished business with a dead mind-ship and a living survivor.  (7,200 words; Time: 24m)

Rating: ★★★★★ Award-Worthy

Recommended By: NClarke

All The Wrong Places, by Sean Williams

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(SF) A young Australian man regrets breaking up with a girl and chases her across time and space, trying to catch up with her and apologize. Delightful. (4,900 words; Time: 16m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆, Average

Pictures From The Resurrection, by Bruce Sterling

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(SF) Fort Lucky, Texas, has survived the super-soldiers called "zombies," but Calderon thinks it won't be long now. (6,700 words; Time: 22m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆, Not Recommended
Recommended By: LTilton

Aspects: A Galactic Centre Story, by Gregory Benford

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(SF) A group of human beings fleeing "mechs" that are trying to exterminate them, come across a building their ancestors constructed before their civilization was destroyed. (6,900 words; Time: 23m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆, Not Recommended

The Cold Inequalities, by Yoon Ha Lee

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(SF) Anzhmir supervises the data stores on an interstellar spaceship. The people encoded in the data are asleep, but Anzhmir thinks there's a stowaway. (3,600 words; Time: 12m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆, Not Recommended

Emergence, by Gwyneth Jones

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★★☆☆☆

(SF) Romanz, a judge in the moons of Jupiter, deals with a tough case involving a juvenile delinquent AI. (7,100 words; Time: 23m)

Recommended By: 🏆₁Sturgeon+3 📙₁GDozois+2 📙₁JStrahan+2 (Q&A)

Cocoons, by Nancy Kress

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(SF) The narrator escorts an official concerned about a disease that converts unlucky colonists into alien creatures. (5,000 words; Time: 16m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆, Average

Body Politic, by Kameron Hurley

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(SF) Narsis interrogates opposition saboteurs, sent by a man named "Keli." Narsis has to catch Keli soon, and his best lead is an incoherent prisoner. (7,000 words; Time: 23m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆, Not Recommended

Drones, by Simon Ings

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(Soft SF) A man describes his family problems in a future England where a plague has killed almost all the women. (4,400 words; Time: 14m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆, Not Recommended
Recommended By: RHorton:5

Desert Lexicon, by Benjanun Sriduangkaew

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(Soft SF) The government offers freedom to prisoners who'll become cyborgs and spend 90 days destroying old war machines. (4,800 words; Time: 16m)

Rating: ★★★★☆, Recommended

Rates Of Change, by James S.A. Corey

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(Hard SF) A fun story about a near future where doctors can transplant your brain into a designer body, and a woman whose son nevertheless manages to sustain life-threatening injuries. (4,900 words; Time: 16m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆, Average

Recommended By: GDozois:5