- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press (Jan 23 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0965590151
- ISBN-13: 978-0965590150
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.8 x 2.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,923,454 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This collection of award-winning science fiction includes a story that was a finalist for the Hugo Awards and one that was voted one of the 10 greatest science fiction stories to appear during the 1990s. In the title piece, a geologist has downloaded the memories of his deceased mentor into a robot’s electronic brain. Together, they bore through the crust and mantle to the very core of the planet Earth. Their work is complicated by a mysterious intelligence deep within the Earth and by the robot’s own emergent humanity. The remaining stories comprise a variety of tales including a story about climbing in the Chilean Andes in which the protagonist is haunted by a ghost, and a tale about a battle-weary veteran who returns from a high-tech future to face his most sinister challenge at home.
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. . . one of the most distinctive new voices in SF. —Locus Online
THE ROBOT'S TWILIGHT COMPANION is a collection of nine stories and novellas, all originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine between 1992 and 1999. They include the Hugo nominee "Life on the Moon," the title story and the basis for the novel Earthling and the near-masterpiece "A Dry Quiet War," a tale of warfare and loss at the end of time.
The book opens with "Life on the Moon," the tale of Henry Colterman, a poet who loses his wife to the moon when she accepts the position of chief lunar architect. Like "Aconcagua," the story of a die-hard mountain climber who discovers more than he bargained for in a near-disastrous solo expedition, "Life on the Moon" is only peripherally science fiction, dealing more with relationships—and the sudden end of relationships—than with the usual trappings of SF. There's a similar theme in "Radio Praha," in which a KGB agent in Prague discovers the skilled artisans of a dying profession—vacuum tube manufacturers—have transcended not only their art, but quite possibly the laws of physics; and in "Black Canoes," where a woman who can traverse dimensions discovers that her role in the universe has changed dramatically.
As enjoyable as these tidbits are, for me the jewels of the collection are the longer pieces, including especially "A Dry, Quiet War," "Mystery Box," and the dense and enigmatic "Grist." While they're not all linked, most share a powerful connecting vision of a gradually transformed humanity—an ambitious, baffling, and (how to say this delicately?) only partially comprehensible vision of a human race radically changed by nanotechnology and collective consciousness. This is what a trip to the future should feel like: packed with strange wonders, only a handful of which are easily grasped, but all of which hint at a vast, unfolding destiny for the human race. —SFsite.com Copyright © 2000 by John O'Neill
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4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant and thought-provoking, Sep 1 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Robots Twilight Companion (Hardcover)
The Robot's Twilight Companion is a brilliant compendium of stories by one of the best and the brightest (not to mention criminally underappreciated) young writers in America. Read it and stretch your mind so far out of shape you will never see the world in the same way again. If you like Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, or even William Faulkner, Tony Daniel's books belong on your shelves -- and in your head! Make The Robot's Twilight Companion your companion and I guarantee it will be the start of a beautiful relationship.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great showcase anthology of science fiction storytelling!, May 4 2000
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Robots Twilight Companion (Hardcover)
The Robot's Twilight Companion is a superb collection of science fiction short stories by Tony Daniel and presented under one cover for the first time. These outstanding tales of imagination include: Life On The Moon; A Dry, Quiet War; Radio Praha; Aconcagua; Black Canoes; Death Of Reason; Mystery Box; Grist; and the title piece, The Robot's Twilight Companion. This highly recommended anthology offers an introduction for science fiction fans to one of today's best storytelling talents and will leave them wanting more!
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not Free SF Reader, April 25 2008
By Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Robots Twilight Companion (Hardcover)
A good book. This collection averages 3.50 which is really nicely done for a first batch, anchored by the excellent 'A Dry, Quiet War' about a very strange post-war homecoming from his Metaplanetary setting. A few stories from that setting, as well as a couple in the middle that tend to the supernatural, and even a science fiction spy story, in Prague.Robot's Twilight Companion : Life on the Moon - Tony Daniel
Robot's Twilight Companion : A Dry Quiet War - Tony Daniel
Robot's Twilight Companion : Radio Praha - Tony Daniel
Robot's Twilight Companion : Aconcagua - Tony Daniel
Robot's Twilight Companion : Black Canoes - Tony Daniel
Robot's Twilight Companion : Death of Reason - Tony Daniel
Robot's Twilight Companion : Mystery Box - Tony Daniel
Robot's Twilight Companion : Grist - Tony Daniel
Robot's Twilight Companion : The Robot's Twilight Companion - Tony Daniel
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