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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Mechanical Animals
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'A speculative fiction safari that riffs on the traditional ideals of automata to explore our strange and competitive relationship with the natural world. Biomimicry is no stranger to literature, with canonical authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hans Christian Anderson [sic], and Jules Verne setting the tone for a trope that has expounded and expanded upon what exactly separates humans from the animal kingdom as well as the boundary between machines and living beings. Featuring 15 original stories by today's top science fiction and fantasy authors and contextual mecha-fauna essays by artist and Insect Lab Studio maker, Mike Libby, and SF encyclopedist and author Jess Nevins, Mechanical Animals presents a biomimicry menagerie of animalistic machines that will blur the lines between what is and isn't nature's design.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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  • Contents indexed selectively.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Colorado,
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Hex Publishers , 2018 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Two Bees Dancing, Tessa Kum , single work short story science fiction

'A nameless government drone pilot on permanent disability is kidnapped and forced to fly a reprogrammed bee for criminal purposes. Instead, the reprogramming puts him into mental contact with the HiveAI and into a whole new world.'

Source: Review for Dogpatch Press.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Colorado,
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      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Hex Publishers ,
      2018 .
      image of person or book cover 3864343142929521126.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 417p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published November 2018.
      ISBN: 9780999773673, 0999773674
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