Bioids (Galactic Mindseas A Collection of Short Fiction)
Edited by Bonnie Brunish
(Review by Wendy S.Delmater)
You don’t have to be familiar with the Mindseas series to enjoy this themed anthology by several authors. Bioids are a type of artificial lifeforms, artificial in rather unique way from the robotic humanoids or animals. Just how closely can they mimic us? There are lines they can’t cross, and yet the people that interact with them are just as human as we are today. Let’s just say this book is all about what might happen when things go horribly wrong or the lines between human and bioid gets crossed.
Examples are a story about a woman scientist trying to run away with a perfect “man” she’s created and fallen in love with, a murder mystery about a failed colony and its bioids, and an actress who uses bioids as stuntmen–and for realistic death scenes.
It’s a thought-provoking volume that warns of our species off many of the pitfalls of thinking machines are human or our propensity to have slack ethics. It also examines where we might place the borders on sentience. And Bioids has another angle to explore what makes us human,