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Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism

By Andrea Kriz
Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism by Andrea Kriz digital book - Fable

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A short story collection exploring unexpected, fantastical futures and how we cope in them.

Your friend creates an award-winning VR game—based on your friendship. An AI starts a YouTube channel at the expense of its creator. A fanfic writer plagiarizing the lives of the marginalized gets her comeuppance. Time travel meets magic in a world blown into pieces by war. Dragons modify DNA and undergo peer review. In Andrea Kriz's debut short story collection, technology and genres wildly blend in stories that will challenge how you see our future.


Stories include "Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism," "Communist Computer Rap God," "There Are No Hot Topics on Whukai," "Miss DELETE Myself," "AIs Who Make Ais Make the Best Ais!" "The Ones Who Got Away from Time and Loss," "Rebuttal to Reviewer's Comments on Edits for "Demonstration of a Novel Draconification Protocol in a Human Subject"," "I Want to Dream of a Brief Future," "And That's Why I Gave Up on Magic," "Resistance in a Drop of DNA," "The Last Caricature of Jean Moulin," and "The Leviathan and the Fury."

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“I absolutely loved this short book of short stories of speculative fiction, ranging from virtual meetings to time machines in a world war to the division of magic users and non, an AI rap god... the gamut is wide and I really enjoyed most of the stories (and regular-enjoyed the ones I didn't Super Enjoy). The bad thing about stories so short is that I wanted even more from several of the worlds instead of these taste tests but even so... no real complaints. More than one (especially 'And That's Why I Gave Up on Magic' had me staring at the wall behind my computer sort of taking it all in and taking a breath before continuing on. Thank you to Interstellar Flight Press and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for review.”
Thumbs Up“This genre of speculative fiction is really growing on me.”

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