This collection of award-winning science fiction includes a story that was a finalist for the Hugo Awards and one that was voted one of the 10 greatest science fiction stories to appear during the 1990s. In the title piece, a geologist has downloaded the memories of his deceased mentor into a robot’s electronic brain. Together, they bore through the crust and mantle to the very core of the planet Earth. Their work is complicated by a mysterious intelligence deep within the Earth and by the robot’s own emergent humanity. The remaining stories comprise a variety of tales including a story about climbing in the Chilean Andes in which the protagonist is haunted by a ghost, and a tale about a battle-weary veteran who returns from a high-tech future to face his most sinister challenge at home.
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The Robot's Twilight Companion is one of the best books I read last year, and the most original short fiction collection I've stumbled across in a long time. [F]or me the jewels of the collection are the longer pieces, including especially "A Dry, Quiet War," "Mystery Box," and the dense and enigmatic "Grist." . . . This is what a trip to the future should feel like: packed with strange wonders, only a handful of which are easily grasped, but all of which hint at a vast, unfolding destiny for the human race. --John O'Neill (for Sfsite.com)
From the title piece, with its Asimovian focus on a redefinition of humanity, to the Sergio Leone-flavored tour-de-force of "A Dry, Quiet War," to the meditation upon the often contrary forces of love and social commitment in the Hugo-nominated "Life on the Moon," these stories constitute the most idiosyncratic body of short science fiction since the early days of John Varley. In sum they clearly enunciate the fact that Tony Daniel is a supremely gifted writer whose career has just begun. --Lucius Shepard
Remember Tony Daniel's name, and keep watching for whatever he does! --Roger Zelazny --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
From the title piece, with its Asimovian focus on a redefinition of humanity, to the Sergio Leone-flavored tour-de-force of "A Dry, Quiet War," to the meditation upon the often contrary forces of love and social commitment in the Hugo-nominated "Life on the Moon," these stories constitute the most idiosyncratic body of short science fiction since the early days of John Varley. In sum they clearly enunciate the fact that Tony Daniel is a supremely gifted writer whose career has just begun. --Lucius Shepard
Remember Tony Daniel's name, and keep watching for whatever he does! --Roger Zelazny --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
About the Author
Tony Daniel is a frequent contributor to Asimov’s Science Fiction and the author of Warpath and Earthling. He lives in New York City.
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Tony Daniel is the author of five science fiction books, the latest of which is Guardian of Night, as well as an award-winning short story collection, The Robot's Twilight Companion. He is Hugo finalist for his story "Life on the Moon," which also won the Asimov's Reader's Choice Award. Daniel's short fiction has been much anthologized and has been collected in multiple year's best compilations. Daniel has also cowritten screenplays for SyFy Channel horror movies and during the early 2000s was the writer and director of numerous audio dramas for critically-acclaimed SCIFI.COM's Seeing Ear Theatre. Born in Alabama, he has lived in St. Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Prague, and New York City. Daniel is currently an editor at Baen Books. He is married and has two children.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant and thought-provoking,
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This review is from: The Robot's Twilight Companion (Hardcover)
The Robot's Twilight Companion is a brilliant compendium of stories by one of the best and the brightest (not to mention criminally underappreciated) young writers in America. Read it and stretch your mind so far out of shape you will never see the world in the same way again. If you like Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, or even William Faulkner, Tony Daniel's books belong on your shelves -- and in your head! Make The Robot's Twilight Companion your companion and I guarantee it will be the start of a beautiful relationship.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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A great showcase anthology of science fiction storytelling!,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Robot's Twilight Companion (Hardcover)
The Robot's Twilight Companion is a superb collection of science fiction short stories by Tony Daniel and presented under one cover for the first time. These outstanding tales of imagination include: Life On The Moon; A Dry, Quiet War; Radio Praha; Aconcagua; Black Canoes; Death Of Reason; Mystery Box; Grist; and the title piece, The Robot's Twilight Companion. This highly recommended anthology offers an introduction for science fiction fans to one of today's best storytelling talents and will leave them wanting more!
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This review is from: The Robot's Twilight Companion (Hardcover)
A good book. This collection averages 3.50 which is really nicely done for a first batch, anchored by the excellent 'A Dry, Quiet War' about a very strange post-war homecoming from his Metaplanetary setting. A few stories from that setting, as well as a couple in the middle that tend to the supernatural, and even a science fiction spy story, in Prague.
Robot's Twilight Companion : Life on the Moon - Tony Daniel Robot's Twilight Companion : A Dry Quiet War - Tony Daniel Robot's Twilight Companion : Radio Praha - Tony Daniel Robot's Twilight Companion : Aconcagua - Tony Daniel Robot's Twilight Companion : Black Canoes - Tony Daniel Robot's Twilight Companion : Death of Reason - Tony Daniel Robot's Twilight Companion : Mystery Box - Tony Daniel Robot's Twilight Companion : Grist - Tony Daniel Robot's Twilight Companion : The Robot's Twilight Companion - Tony Daniel Centre of the earth rescue rangers. 3.5 out of 5 Ferret girl proves vital in time tweaking titans massive personality conflict. 3.5 out of 5 Pellicle met pellicle. Grist met grist. With some landscaping and brain blowing. 3 out of 5 "F.A. license HARCO234319599 for genre constructions, science fiction."" Cop stuff, however, far from Ideal. 3 out of 5 Inversion cave croocificixion rite. 3.5 out of 5 Climbing ghost guide. 3.5 out of 5 Smoking spies like us radio statis time. 3.5 out of 5 Metaspace Marine homecoming cleanout. 4.5 out of 5 Architectural possibilities scrambled. 3.5 out of 5 4 out of 5
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- The Year's Best Science Fiction, Seventeenth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction, Seventeenth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois in Front Matter
- Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future by Gardner Dozois on page 294
- The Good New Stuff: Adventure in SF in the Grand Tradition by Gardner Dozois on page 354
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