If you run, it will catch you. If you hide, it will find you. If you resist, it will destroy you. A jaded ex-wife prepares a deadly surprise for her husband's new bride, a robotic executioner discovers there's more to lethal injection than just needles, an army of war machines not interested in polite conversation has humanity in its gun-sights, an aging actor treads the line between man and machine, and from beyond come the towering steel shadows of monsters that blot out the starlight. It is estimated that within our generation's lifetime a computer will be built that can exceed the raw computational power of the human mind. Shortly thereafter, a computer will be built that can "think" faster than the human race... From the earliest stories of Golems and clockwork men in the 19th century to Hollywood films full of steel-skinned mechanical killing machines, authors and filmmakers for the last two hundred years have given birth to an emerging archetype: a manifestation of industrial malevolence, a cautionary tale of technological hubris, and a call to reassert the tenuous hold modern man has over the machines that do his bidding. An enduring icon much beloved of science fiction fans everywhere, the Death Robot comes to life in this collection of stories by some of the brightest upcoming stars in speculative fiction.
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Scarier than I expected,
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I bought this book expecting it to mostly contain humorous or philosophical stories - instead it's full of quite scary ones.Perhaps it was just because I read it while on holiday in the tropics but this isn't a collection for the faint hearted likely to have disturbed nights after being scared. I found the stories well written and effective in conveying a horror of death machines.
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