Machine Learning
No romance or no physical intimacy at all.
Closed door. No anatomical or crude language.
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A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling novel Wool, and then with other enthralling works such as Sand and Beacon 23. Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey's science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the world of Wool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this volume, and fifteen additional stories collected here for the first time. These stories explore everything from artificial intelligence to parallel universes to video games, and each story is accompanied by an author's note exploring the background and genesis of each story. Howey's incisive mind makes Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories a compulsively readable and thought-provoking selection of short works--from a modern master at the top of his game.
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One & Only
Fate-and-alternate-lives speculative premise like Howey's parallel-universe stories, but centered on a warm romance with a guaranteed happy ending instead of cold tech.
The way you make me feel
Shares the slice-of-life character sketches Howey's shorter pieces do well, though it trades speculative concepts for a light contemporary food-truck romance.
Secrets, Schemes and Sewing Machines
Both center on making and mending, but this swaps speculative idea-play for a warm, grounded teen story about family secrets and light romance.
Harvest Season
Keeps the dark-suspense pull of Howey's grimmer tales but goes explicit and gory, with small-town murder instead of sci-fi speculation.
Tourist Season
Same appetite for morally-grey characters in a lethal setting, only here it's a graphic, very steamy enemies-to-lovers romcom rather than speculative fiction.
Moriré besando a Simon Snow
Genre-bending chosen-one storytelling with the playful concept-flipping Howey enjoys, but softer, funnier, and driven by a slow-burn MM rivalry.