num_pages: 304
description: From the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life. A VINTAGE BOOKS ORIGINAL.In All Kinds of Proof a down-and-out drunk makes the unlikeliest of friends when he is hired to train a mail-carrying robot; in Blood Memory a mother confronts the dangerous reality that her daughter will never assimilate in this world after she was the first child born through a teleportation device; in The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever a physicist rushes home to be with his daughter after he hears reports of an atmospheric anomaly which he knows to be a sign of the end of the earth; in Miss Gloria a robot comes back to life in many different forms in a quest to save a young girl. Guardian Angels and Other Monsters displays the depth and breadth of Daniel H. Wilson's vision and examines how artificial intelligence both saves and destroys humanity.
language: English
title: Guardian Angels and Other Monsters
publisher: Vintage