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Cyborgs have been used to thrill, frighten, inspire, and educate us about just what it is to be human. Since the term was first coined in 1960—by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline—the science has finally caught up with the theory. There are cyborgs among us. Hugo Award-winning editor and cyborg, Neil Clarke has assembled here twenty-six of their stories as imagined by some of the best and brightest science fiction writers today. Among them are winners and nominees of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Yinhe, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, and Campbell Award for Best New Writer, among others. Contributors Madeline Ashby, Elizabeth Bear, Helena Bell, Tobias S. Buckell, Erin Cashier, Jason K. Chapman, Seth Dickinson, Amanda Forrest, Greg Egan, Erin Hoffman, Xia Jia, Rich Larson, Yoon Ha Lee, Ken Liu, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Greg Mellor, Mari Ness, Chen Qiufan, Robert Reed, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Rachel Swirsky, E. Catherine Tobler, Genevieve Valentine, Peter Watts, A.C. Wise, E. Lily Yu. All stories are original to this anthology. An anthology of original cyborg stories edited by a cyborg. Stronger. Better. Faster. We will rebuild you. CONTENTS Introduction by Neil Clarke Come From Away by Madeline Ashby No Place to Dream, but a Place to Die by Elizabeth Bear Married by Helena Bell A Cold Heart by Tobias S. Buckell Honeycomb Girls by Erin Cashier What Ive Seen With Your Eyes by Jason K. Chapman Wizard, Cabalist, Ascendant by Seth Dickinson Seventh Sight by Greg Egan Negative Space by Amanda Forrest Mercury in Retrograde by Erin Hoffman Tongtongs Summer by Xia Jia God Decay by Rich Larson Always the Harvest by Yoon Ha Lee The Regular by Ken Liu Coastlines of the Stars by Alex Dally MacFarlane Fusion by Greg Mellor Memories and Wire by Mari Ness Oil of Angles by Chen Qiufan The Sarcophagus by Robert Reed Synecdoche Oracles by Benjanun Sriduangkaew Tender by Rachel Swirsky The Cumulative Effects of Light Over Time by E. Catherine Tobler Small Medicine by Genevieve Valentine Collateral by Peter Watts Taking the Ghost by A.C. Wise Muse de lme Seule by E. Lily Yu About the Authors About the Editor Cover art by Julie Dillon Better . . . Stronger . . . Faster . . . The doctors rebuilt Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke and turned him into a cyborg. Now he has assembled this anthology of twenty-six original cyborg stories by Greg Egan, Madeline Ashby, Elizabeth Bear, Peter Watts, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Yoon Ha Lee, and more! An anthology of original cyborg stories edited by a cyborg. Stronger. Better. Faster. We will rebuild you. Better . . . Stronger . . . Faster . . . The doctors rebuilt Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke and made him a cyborg. Now he has assembled this anthology of twenty-six original cyborg stories by Greg Egan, Madeline Ashby, Elizabeth Bear, Peter Watts, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Yoon Ha Lee, and more!