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Machine Learning

New and Collected Stories
By Hugh Howey
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Machine Learning by Hugh Howey is a captivating collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories that dive into themes from artificial intelligence and aliens to parallel universes and video games. The volume includes tales set in the world of Wool, exclusive new stories like “Glitch,” “The Automated Ones,” and its sequel, alongside many more previously uncollected works. Each story is enriched with an author's note providing insights into its creation, making this a thought-provoking exploration of technology and humanity.
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A collection of new and previously published stories by New York Times best-selling author Hugh Howey, including three set in his Wool universe

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A collection of shockingly prescient stories covering topics from aliens to AI, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy.

Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling novel Wool, and then with other enthralling works such as Sand and Beacon 23.

Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey's science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the world of Wool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this volume, and fifteen additional stories collected here for the first time. "Glitch" asks what happens when a battle bot refuses to fight. "The Automated Ones" introduces ideas of discrimination in a world populated by both humans and AI, and its sequel "WHILE (u > i) i -;" explores the challenges a human woman and an android face after falling in love. In "Select Character," a new mother who is bored with being stuck at home starts playing her husband's video game according to her own rules and makes a surprising discovery. These stories explore everything from artificial intelligence to parallel universes to video games, and each story is accompanied by an author's note exploring the background and genesis of each story.

Howey's incisive mind makes Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories a compulsively readable and thought-provoking selection of short works—from a modern master at the top of his game.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781328767523

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 October 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 272g

Pages: 352

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Biography & Memoir Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational General Fiction Hugh Howey Sci-Fi & Fantasy Science Fiction Young Adult

About the Author

HUGH HOWEY is the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde saga and the New York Times and USA Today best-selling Wool series. The Wool Omnibus won Kindle Book Review's 2012 Indie Book of the Year Award and has been translated in forty countries.

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