About the Book: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
From the title storys fantastical inter-dimensional assassins to the steampunk
dystopia of "Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard" burrowing through the
ruins of a civilisation destroyed by a plague, from Black Mirror-esque tales of
blockchain cryptography ("Byzantine Empathy") and Internet trolling ("Thoughts
and Prayers") to a three-story hard-SF arc about artificial intelligence and the
singularity ("The Gods Will Not Be Chained", "The Gods Will Not Be Slain" and
"The Gods Have Not Died In Vain"), here are 17 interlinking visions that explore
what it is to be human, and what it is like to abandon or transcend