"I've always enjoyed Alexis Hall's skill as a wordsmith…and Waiting for the Flood is surely one of his highest achievements on that score
he explores texts that both mirror our contemporary moment and present new ways to think about our lives
Illustrator David Miles's black-and-white spot art leaps off the page
a crime whose nature is never revealed to him
and Native American descent to second-
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth Sports_Gift_Guide "I've always enjoyed Alexis Hall'sRobots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human. Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace