By D.L. Young
First Published: 2015
Rating: Excellent
Eleven gripping tales explore the near-future impacts of advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, automated warfare, and genetic engineering.

The award-winning story The Reader, Training the Fundies, and the title work Juarez Square envision an anarchic, cutthroat existence along the US-Mexico border. In Ximena, a defiantly unconventional woman opens a robot brothel in Madrid. The Gianni Box tells the tale of a stolen artificial intelligence that becomes the hottest designer in the fashion world. The Jacob Seeds takes place on a man-made floating island nation, where a scientist’s revolutionary breakthrough in genetically-modified food becomes the prize of a high-stakes, winner-take-all political battle.