"Your Future Is Bright! After all, your mother is a robot, your father has joined the alien hive mind, and your dinner will be counterfeit 3D-printed steak. Even though your worker bots have staged a mutiny, and your tour guide speaks only in memes, you can always sell your native language if you need some extra cash." --

Introduction / Jacob Weisman -- Foreword / Hannu Rajaniemi -- Openness / Alexander Weinstein -- Shape of my name / Nino Cipri -- Utopia, LOL? / Jamie Wahls -- Mother tongues / S. Qiouyi Lu -- In the sharing place / David Erik Nelson -- A series of steaks / Vina Jie-Min Prasad -- Secret life of bots / Suzanne Palmer -- Ice / Rich Larson -- One hour, every seven days / Alice Sola Kim -- Toppers / Jason Sanford -- Tender loving plastics / Amman Sabet -- Welcome to your authentic Indian experience / Rebecca Roanhorse -- Strange waters / Samantha Mills -- Calved / Sam J. Miller -- Need for air / Lettie Prell -- Robo-liopleurodon! / Darcie Little Badger -- Doing and undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi / E. Lily Yu -- Madeleine / Amal El-Mohtar -- Our lady of the open road / Sarah Pinsker -- A study in oils / Kelly Robson