Guardian Angels and Other Monsters

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.