Robosoldiers: Thank You for Your Servos
Robosoldiers: Thank You for Your Servos. Stephen Lawson, editor. Stephen R. Hogan, Foreword. Riverdale, NY: Baen, 2022. Distributed by Simon & Schuster, New York City. Listed on Internet Speculative Fiction Database, as of December 2023, here.[1]
From ISFDB, linked above
ix • Foreword (Robosoldiers: Thank You for Your Servos) • essay by Stephen R. Hogan
xiii • Editor's Introduction (Robosoldiers: Thank You for Your Servos) • essay by Stephen Lawson
1 • Higher Ground • novelette by M. T. Reiten
25 • Today I Go Home • novelette by Martin L. Shoemaker
51 • All Is One • novelette by Doug Beason
77 • Edge Case • short story by Richard Fox
97 • Manchurian • novelette by Sean Patrick Hazlett
129 • Resilience • novelette [I classified it "short story" — RDE] by Monalisa Foster
153 • The Rules of the Game • novelette by Phillip Pournelle [as by Phillip E. Pournelle]
183 • My Dog Skipper 2.0 • novelette by Weston Ochse
217 • Uncovered Data • short story by David Drake
229 • The Handyman • short story by T. C. McCarthy
247 • The Pinocchio Gambit • short story by Brad R. Torgersen
269 • Nightingale • novelette by Stephen Lawson
297 • Operation Meltwater • novelette by Philip A. Kramer
Blurb from Google Books: "NEW STORIES OF AUGMENTED SOLDIERS AND THE FUTURE OF WARFARE. Near future, hard science fiction, and imagined military robotics and artificial intelligence in all domains of warfare (land, sea, air, space, and cyber) over the next fifty years as only Baen can do it."[2]
From back-cover blurb (July 2023) from Publishers Weekly: "[...] the future of military robotics [...]. It's smart, if disquieting military SF. Readers interested in how Asimov's Laws of Robotics might play out on the battlefield will be particularly fascinated."
From lead back-cover blurb, repeated on Baen website: "Robosoldiers. They take many forms, from disembodied AI to humanlike androids and more. But at their cores beat the cybernetic hearts of warriors! In these stories of hard military SF you will journey to the battlefields of tomorrow with the veterans who have been there and the researchers developing the next phase of battle and get a glimpse into the future of warfare."[3]
From the Editor's Introduction, some puffery removed: "What you're getting in this book is [...] military futurism [... covering] all-domain warfare — land, sea, air, space, and cyber. You're getting hypersonic delivery vehicles, human-machine teaming, wetware, nano-machines, artificial intelligence, explosive ordnance disposal, nuclear weapons, and hunter-killer robots of all shapes and sizes" (p. xvi).
RDE, finishing, 25Dec23/7Jan24
