Beyond Singularity, edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

Wow, this book was awful. The blurb on the back cover states, “Explore what it will be like to be human in a posthuman world.” Considering one of the things about literature I enjoy is experiencing the emotions of the people in the story, when the authors often go out of the way to make the main characters seem as non-human possible I suppose it isn’t a surprise I hated this. The only episode I liked was the final one, The Voluntary State by Christopher Rowe: it told of a future Tennessee and their battle with neighboring Kentucky. The rest range from tolerable to execrable, with the bulk landing on the unfortunate side of the scale.

First Sentence (from the preface):

“Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.”