Ambiguity Machines, And Other Stories: And Other Stories

By: Vandana Singh

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Synopsis: After the success of her collection The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet, Vandana Singh returns to the short story in Ambiguity Machines. Her deep humanism interplays with her scientific background in stories that explore and celebrate this world and others, with characters who are trying to make sense of the people they meet, what they see, and the challenges they face. An eleventh century poet wakes to find he is as an artificially intelligent companion on a starship. A woman of no account has the ability to look into the past. In Requiem, a major new novella, a woman goes to Alaska to try and make sense of her aunt's disappearance. Singh's stories have been performed on BBC radio, been finalists for the British SF Association award, selected for the Tiptree award honour list, and oft reprinted in Best of the Year anthologies. Her stories dives deep into the vast strangeness of the universe without and within and her unblinking clear vision explore the ways in which we move through space and time: together, yet always apart.