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This short story originally appeared in the anthology The Atlantic Council Art of Future Warfare Project: War Stories from the Future (2015), edited by August Cole, and was reprinted in Clarkesworld Magazine, #119 August 2016. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection (2016), edited by Gardner Dozois.

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They call it Company Town--a Family-owned city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes.

Meet Hwa. One of the few in her community to forego bio-engineered enhancements, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig. But she's an expert in the arts of self-defence, and she's been charged with training the Family's youngest, who has been receiving death threats--seemingly from another timeline.

Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability--serial killer? Or something much, much worse...

This novelette originally appeared in the anthology Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures (2017), edited by Ed Finn, Joey Eschrich and Juliet Ulman. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection (2018), edited by Gardner Dozois, and The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 (2018), edited by Neil Clarke.

This short story originally appeared on Slate.com on March 26, 2018, and was later anthologized in The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four (2019) edited by Neil Clarke and Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow (2019) from Unnamed Press.

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This short story origially appeared in the anthology Cyber World: Tales of Humanity's Tomorrow (2016), edited by Joshua Viola and Jason Heller. It can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 2 (2016), edited by Neil Clarke.

This short story originally appeared in the anthology An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter (2013), editor uncredited. It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight (2014), edited by Jonathan Strahan, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014, edited by Rich Horton, and Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (2015), edited by Helen Marshall and Sandra Kasturi.

This novelette originally appeared on the Angry Robot website, December 2011. It can also be found in the anthologies:

• Year's Best SF 17 (2012), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (2012), edited by Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas
• Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (2013), edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
• More Human Than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity (2017), edited by Neil Clarke.

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Amy Peterson is a self-replicating humanoid robot known as a VonNeumann.

For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother's past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.

Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she's learning impossible things about her clade's history - like the fact that she alone can kill humans without failsafing...

Javier is a self-replicating humanoid on a journey of redemption. Javier's quest takes him from Amy's island, where his actions have devastating consequences for his friend, toward Mecha where he will find either salvation... or death.

Publication of this novel has been delayed to 2020.

In the final instalment of the influential Machine Dynasty series, the rapture for which the self-replicating humanoids were engineered finally comes to pass.

Now that the failsafe that once kept synthetic beings from harming humans has been hacked, all vNare discovering the promise -- and the peril -- of free will. Her consciousness unleashed across computer systems all across the world, the vicious vN Portia stands poised to finally achieve her lifelong dream of bringing feeble, fleshy humanity to its knees.

The battle between Portia and granddaughter Amy comes to its ultimate conclusion. Can Amy get her family to the stars before Portia destroys every opportunity for escape and freedom?