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Machine learning : new and collected stories / Hugh Howey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017Description: xvi, 334 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781328767530 (hardback)
  • 1328767531 (hardback)
  • 1328767523
  • 9781328767523
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Aliens and alien worlds. The walk up Nameless Ridge -- Second suicide -- Nothing goes to waste -- Deep blood kettle -- Artificial intelligences. Machine learning -- Executable -- The box -- Glitch -- Silo stories. In the air -- In the mountain -- In the woods -- Fantasy. Hell from the East -- The black beast -- The good god -- Algorithms of love and hate. The automated ones -- Mouth breathers -- WHILE (u>i) i--; -- Virtual worlds. The plagiarist -- Select character -- Lost and found. Promises of London -- Peace in amber.
Summary: "A collection of new and previously published stories by New York Times best-selling author Hugh Howey, including three set in his Wool universe"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Science Fiction/Fantasy Howey, Hugh Available 33111008830172
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A collection of shockingly prescient stories covering topics from aliens to AI, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy

Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling novel Wool, and then with other enthralling works such as Sand and Beacon 23.

Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey's science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the world of Wool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this volume, and fifteen additional stories collected here for the first time. "Glitch" asks what happens when a battle bot refuses to fight. "The Automated Ones" introduces ideas of discrimination in a world populated by both humans and AI, and its sequel "WHILE (u > i) i -;" explores the challenges a human woman and an android face after falling in love. In "Select Character" a new mother who is bored with being stuck at home starts playing her husbands' video game according to her own rules-- and makes a surprising discovery. These stories explore everything from artificial intelligence to parallel universes to video games, and each story is accompanied by an author's note exploring the background and genesis of each story.

Howey's incisive mind makes Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories a compulsively readable and thought-provoking selection of short works--from a modern master at the top of his game.

"A John Joseph Adams book"

Aliens and alien worlds. The walk up Nameless Ridge -- Second suicide -- Nothing goes to waste -- Deep blood kettle -- Artificial intelligences. Machine learning -- Executable -- The box -- Glitch -- Silo stories. In the air -- In the mountain -- In the woods -- Fantasy. Hell from the East -- The black beast -- The good god -- Algorithms of love and hate. The automated ones -- Mouth breathers -- WHILE (u>i) i--; -- Virtual worlds. The plagiarist -- Select character -- Lost and found. Promises of London -- Peace in amber.

"A collection of new and previously published stories by New York Times best-selling author Hugh Howey, including three set in his Wool universe"-- Provided by publisher.

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