Entanglements

Tomorrow's Lovers, Families, and Friends

Sheila Williams

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 2020
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780262359337
• Subtopic: Technology & Engineering Research & Skills
• Index: Literature

In a future world dominated by the technological, people will still be entangled in relationships—in romances, friendships, and families. This volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series considers the effects that scientific and technological discoveries will have on the emotional bonds that hold us together.

The strange new worlds in these stories feature AI family therapy, floating fungitecture, and a futuristic love potion. A co-op of mothers attempts to raise a child together, lovers try to resolve their differences by employing a therapeutic sexbot, and a robot helps a woman dealing with Parkinson's disease. Contributions include Xia Jia's novelette set in a Buddhist monastery, translated by the Hugo Award-winning writer Ken Liu; a story by Nancy Kress, winner of six Hugos and two Nebulas; and a profile of Kress by Lisa Yaszek, Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech. Stunning artwork by Tatiana Plakhova—"infographic abstracts" of mixed media software—accompanies the texts.

Contributors

James Patrick Kelly, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Rich Larson, Ken Liu, Sam J. Miller, Annalee Newitz, Suzanne Palmer, Cadwell Turnbull, Nick Wolven, Xia Jia (translated by Ken Liu), Art by Tatiana Plakhova, Profile of Nancy Kress by Lisa Yaszek

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
•  Acknowledgments
•  Introduction: Entanglements
• 1 Invisible People
• 2 Profile: Nancy Kress
• 3 Echo the Echo
• 4 Sparklybits
• 5 A Little Wisdom
• 6 Your Boyfriend Experience
• 7 Mediation
• 8 The Nation of the Sick
• 9 Don’t Mind Me
• 10 The Monogamy Hormone
• 11 The Monk of Lingyin Temple
•  Artwork: Tatiana Plakhova
• Contributors