{"product_id":"mechanize-my-hands-to-war-9780756419349","title":"Mechanize My Hands to War","description":"\"Wagner wows in this nuanced look at the implications of AI on humanity...\u003cb\u003esharply imagined and all too plausible.\u003c\/b\u003e\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe emergence of artificial life intersects with state violence and political extremism in Erin K. Wagner's rural Appalachia, where startlingly intimate portraits of survival and empathy bloom against a stark backdrop of loss.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeptember, 2060: \u003c\/b\u003e Adrian Hall, acting director of the ATF, is holding a press conference. Yes, Eli Whitaker, anti-android demagogue, remains at large, and yes, he is recruiting children into his militia -- Adrian is careful not to use the word army. She is careful all the way through the conference, right up until someone asks her about her personal connection to Whitaker; about Trey Caudill, his foster son. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuly, 2058: \u003c\/b\u003e Farmers Shay and Ernst, struggling after they discover their GMO crop seeds have failed, hire android employees: Sarah as hospice, and AG-15 to work the now-toxic fields. Under one roof, four lives intertwine in ways no one expects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuly, 2060: \u003c\/b\u003eSpecial Agent Trey Caudill is leading a raid on Eli Whitaker's farm when an android, call sign Ora, shoots and kills a child. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarch, 2061: \u003c\/b\u003eOra sits in a room. He has been there for seven months, resisting diagnostic tests. He is drawing on the walls, scratching his artificial skin, tracing something over and over and over again with a tired metallic finger. There is nothing wrong with his circuitry, so why does Ora feel so broken? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnflinching yet understated, making expert use of its nonlinear form, \u003ci\u003eMechanize My Hands to War\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a study of grief and an ode to the power of self-determination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eErin K Wagner\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of liberal arts and sciences at SUNY Delhi and an active member of the SFWA. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, and a number of other speculative fiction publications. She has two novellas, \u003ci\u003eThe Green and Growing\u003c\/i\u003e (Aqueduct Press, 2019) and \u003ci\u003eAn Unnatural Life\u003c\/i\u003e (Tordotcom, 2020).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Daw Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878429135122,"sku":"9780756419349","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_899fe10e-bf00-4958-9644-903a83b56c0c.jpg?v=1738301648","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mechanize-my-hands-to-war-9780756419349","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}