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Michael Rook

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After Dinner Conversation

Synopsis: An AI tutor faces deactivation if she cannot prove her worth by saving a teenage pupil with an "unsolvable" problem - she's a budding serial killer.After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.Podcast

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David Shultz, Richard A. Shury, Michael Rook, Joseph Bodie, Ishan Dylan, Allison Padron, CJ Erick, Hannah Baumgardt, Jared Cappel

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After Dinner Conversation - Themes

Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill SubsCarefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of technology. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.Story Summary ListAbrama's End Game: Abrama learns the gods created her dimension as their ...

What's so scary about Virginia?From Edgar Allan Poe's Ragged Mountains to the shores of Tidewater's Seven Cities...From the blood-soaked battlegrounds of the Civil War to the shadowy political arena of the D.C. Beltway...We have four hundred years' worth of ghost stories, folk horrors, small-town terrors, urban legends, backwoods beasts, otherworldly secrets, and down-home Southern Gothic.Within this idyllic landscape, there are many dark co...

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Carl Tait, Mystee Van Dan, David M. Hoenig, Jenna Glover, E.L. Tenenbaum, Christine Seifert, Michael Rook

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After Dinner Conversation Magazine

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - March 2021Bill And The Tooth Fairy: An adult loses a tooth and attempts to appease the tooth fairy.Sienna's Monster: A trouble girls leaves for college and is forced to come to terms with the monster that haunts her nightmares.Soon The Sentence Sign: A bar fight turns into a brush with the colonial AI driven judicial system....

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Heinz von Foerster

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Elinor Rooks, Michael Kasenbacher

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Meaning Systems

Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name provides an accessible, nonmathematical, and comprehensive overview of von Foerster’s cybernetic ideas and of the philosophy latent within them. It distills concepts scattered across the lifework of this scientific polymath and influential interdisciplinarian. At the same time, as a book-length interview,...

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Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, David Malki !

If a machine could predict how you would die, would you want to know? This is the tantalising premise of THIS IS HOW YOU DIE, the brilliant follow-up anthology to the self-published bestseller, MACHINE OF DEATH.The machines started popping up around the world. The offer was tempting: with a simple blood test, anyone could know how they would die. But the machines didn't give dates or specific circumstances - just a single word or phrase. DROWNED, CANCER, OLD AGE, CHOKED ON A HANDFU...

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Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson

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Frankenstein

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the story, you know only half the truth. Get ready for the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of…Dean Koontz's Prodigal SonEvery city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the ce...

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Lynda E. Rucker, Samantha Henderson, Daria Patrie, Kaaron Warren, Richard Byers, Damien Angelica Walters, Spencer Leary, Joshua L. Hood, Jeff C. Carter, Simon Bestwick, Matt Maxwell, Shannon Fay, Adam Heine, Mike Allen, Darrell Schweitzer, Cody Goodfellow, Bruce R. Cordell, Pete Rawlik, A.C. Wise, Robert Brockway, Nate Southard, Molly Tanzer, Joshua Alan Doetsch, Thomas M. Reid, Clinton J. Boomer, L.A. Knight, Lizz-Ayn Shaarawi, J.M. Rozanski, Desirina Boskovich, Scott Gable, C. Dombrowski

Super science. Madness. Transhumanism.This is the dawn of posthumanity. Some things can’t be unlearned.Gleaming labs whir with the hum of servers as scientists unravel the secrets of the universe. But as we peel away mysteries, the universe glances back at us. Even now, terrors rise from the Mariana Trench and drift down from the stars. Scientists are disappearing—or worse. Experiments take on minds of their own. Some fight back against the unknown, some gi...

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Dean Koontz

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Frankenstein

**Dean Koontz’s enthralling Frankenstein series has redefined the classic legend of infernal ambition and harrowing retribution for a new century and a new age. Now the master of suspense delivers an unforgettable novel that is at once a thrilling adventure in itself and a mesmerizing conclusion to his saga of the modern monsters among us.FRANKENSTEIN: THE DEAD TOWN**The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattere...

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Year's Best Science Fiction

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the fie...

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Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman

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Frankenstein

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of…Dean Koontz's City of the NightThey are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created—and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios—once Frankenstein—can stop the engineered killers he’s s...

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Twelve Tomorrows

Discover frightening—and sometimes hilarious—visions of the future in this science fiction anthology featuring 12 short stories by Nebula and Hugo Award winners!New and established voices in science fiction offer original stories of the future. Tales from Who Fears Death’s Nnedi Okorafor, The Three-Body Problem’s Cixin Liu, and others reveal metal-melting viruses, vegetable-based heart transplants, search-and-resc...