By Ian McDonald First Published: 2007 A collection of eight stories, “Cyberabad Days” is a triumphant return to the India of 2047 (the India of River of Gods); a new, muscular superpower in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, strange new genders, and genetically improved children. Featured Stories: • America is Not the Only Planet (2009) essay by Paul McAuley • Sanjeev and…
The Walled City First Published: 2015 Continuing Avery Cates’ story from “The Shattered Gears,” “The Walled City” sees the aging Gunner tangle with a psionic who has set himself up as a City Lord in the crumbling remnants of civilization. The Pale First Published: 2015 Continuing from The Shattered Gears and The Walled City, Avery tries to put distance between himself and The Angels and…
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…