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An uplifted octopus finds a strange capsule in the water and wonders if one of the long-vanished humans might be found inside; a team of scientists perform some reverse-engineering on a space station and shapeshifting becomes political; and other tales of AI, hybrids, and the far future.

Features:

This Shall Serve as a Demarcation
Some Remarks on the Reproductive Strategy of the common Octopus
A Superordinate Set of Principles
Forestspirit, Forestspirit
Given Sufficient Desperation
Changing Body Templates
For Your Optimal Hookboarding Experience
Increasing Police Visibility
Good People in a Small Space
Recordings of a More Personal Nature
This Secular Technology
Three Partitions
The Size of a Barleycorn, Encased in Lead
Shovelware
The Oracle of DARPA
Toward the Luminous Towers
Wind-Lashed Vehicles of Bone
The Need for Overwhelming Sensation
Spirit Forms of the Sea
All Talk of Common Sense
Standing on the Floodbanks

Algorithmic Shapeshifting

Bogi Takács

Algorithmic Shapeshifting is the first poetry collection of Bogi Takács, winner of the Lambda award for editing Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, and finalist for the Hugo and Locus awards. The collection includes poems from the past decade and previously unpublished work. The scope of pieces extends from the present and past of Jewish life in Hungary and the United States to the far-future, outer-space reaches of the speculative--always with a sense of curiosity and wonder.

Contents:

The One Who Commands Me Call Out My Name - poem
Outside-In / Catalytic Exteriorization - (2014) - poem
The Handcrafted Motions of Flight - (2012) - poem
A Self-Contained Riot of Lights - (2014) - poem
Trans Love Is - poem
A User Guide in the Application of Gem-Flowers - (2014) - poem
Seven Handy Ideas for Algorithmic Shapeshifting - (2018) - poem
Autonomous, Spacefaring - poem
Grow - poem
Continuity Imperative - poem
Gently Chew to Soften the Ridges - (2017) - poem
Pivot Point - poem
The Iterative Nature of the Magical Discovery Process - (2015) - poem
Torah and Secular Learning - (2012) - poem
The Size of a Barleycorn, Encased in Lead - (2017) - poem
Six Hundred and Thirteen Commandments - (2014) - poem
How (Not) to Avoid Harmful Spirits, A Brief Talmudic Guide - poem
Marginalia to Eiruvin 45b - poem
A Hail of Pebbles and Dust - (2011) - poem
Synthesis: This Shining Confluence - (2017) - poem
Never Cease - poem
The Tiny English-Hungarian Phrasebook for Visiting Extraterrestrials - (2013) - poem
Skin of the Creature - poem
Radiation Hormesis - poem
Activities to Perform After Regime Change, I - poem
Replicate Personal Experience - poem
The Bursting Season - (2015) - poem
The Oracle of DARPA - (2012) - poem
Periodicity - poem
Flee to Far Shores - poem
The Weight of Granola and Gefilte - poem
Travel-Charm - poem
A Song of Expanses - poem
Three QUILTBAG+ science micropoems - poem
Expect the Creaking - poem
The Third Extension - poem
Two Tailed Triptych #1: The Ides of March - poem
Two Tailed Triptych #2: Why I Intend to Vote for the Two-Tailed Dog - poem
Two Tailed Triptych #3: Ode to the Ganymedean Telepathic Slime Mold - poem
My Planet / Silence and Noise - poem
Overlays - poem
You Are Here/Was: Blue Line to Memorial Park - (2015) - poem (variant of You Are Here 2014)
Malchutt - poem