Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

Copyright

Copyright © 2017 by Hugh Howey

Foreword copyright © 2017 by Jamie Ford

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

ISBN 978-1-328-76753-0 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-328-76752-3 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-1-328-76433-1 (ebook)

Cover design by M. S. Corley

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The following stories previously appeared elsewhere, in slightly different form: “The Walk up Nameless Ridge” on Amazon.com as part of the Kindle Singles program, September 2012; “Second Suicide” on Amazon.com as part of the Kindle Singles program, July 2014; “Nothing Goes to Waste” on hughhowey.com, 2009; “Deep Blood Kettle” in Lightspeed Magazine, April 2013; “Executable” in The End: Visions of Apocalypse, compiled and edited by N. E. White, 2012; “The Box” on Amazon.com as part of the Kindle Singles program, May 2015; “Glitch” on Amazon.com as part of the Kindle Singles program, June 2014; “In the Air” in The End Is Nigh, edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, March 2014; “In the Mountain” in The End Is Now, edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, September 2014; “In the Woods” in The End Has Come, edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, May 2015; “Hell from the East” in Dead Man’s Hand, edited by John Joseph Adams, Titan Books, May 2014; “The Black Beast” on hughhowey.com, 2011; “The Automated Ones” on hughhowey.com, 2009; “Mouth Breathers” on hughhowey.com, 2009; “WHILE (u > i) i- -;” on hughhowey.com, 2009; “The Plagiarist” on Amazon.com as part of the Kindle Singles program, May 2011; “Select Character” first published in Press Start to Play, edited by Daniel H. Wilson and John Joseph Adams, Vintage Books, Copyright © 2015 by Hugh Howey; “Promises of London” on Amazon.com as part of the Kindle Singles program, May 2014.

“Peace in Amber” first published in The World of Kurt Vonnegut: Peace in Amber (Kindle Worlds Short Story) by Hugh Howey, reprinted under a license arrangement originating with Amazon Publishing, www.apub.com. Copyright © 2014 by Hugh Howey.