num_pages: 672
description: Clarkesworld publisher Neil Clarke collects a reprint anthology of artificial human-themed short fiction.The idea of creating an artificial human is an old one. One of the earliest science-fictional novels Frankenstein  concerned itself primarily with the hubris of creation and ones relationship to ones creator. Later versions of this artificial human story (and indeed later adaptations of Frankenstein ) changed the focus to more modernist questions What is the nature of humanity? What does it mean to be human?These stories continued through the golden age of science fiction with Isaac Asimovs I Robot story cycle and then through post-modern iterations from new wave writers like Philip K. Dick. Today this compelling science fiction trope persists in mass media narratives like Westworld and Ridley Scotts Blade Runner  as well as twenty-first century science fiction novels like Charles Strosss Saturn's Children and Paolo Bacigalupis The Windup Girl .The short stories in More Human than Human demonstrate the depth and breadth of artificial humanity in contemporary science fiction. Issues of passing . . . of what it is to be human . . . of autonomy and slavery and oppression and yes the hubris of creation; these ideas have fascinated us for at least two hundred years and this selection of stories demonstrates why it is such an alluring and recurring conceit.
language: English
title: More Human than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity
publisher: Night Shade