Guardian Angels and Other Monsters, Paperback

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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.