Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism: And Other Stories

A short story collection exploring unexpected, fantastical futures and how we cope in them.

Your friend creates an award-winning VR game-based on your friendship. An AI starts a YouTube channel at the expense of its creator. A fanfic writer plagiarizing the lives of the marginalized gets her comeuppance. Time travel meets magic in a world blown into pieces by war. Dragons modify DNA and undergo peer review. In Andrea Kriz's debut short story collection, technology and genres wildly blend in stories that will challenge how you see our future.

Stories include "Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism," "Communist Computer Rap God," "There Are No Hot Topics on Whukai," "Miss DELETE Myself," "AIs Who Make Ais Make the Best Ais!" "The Ones Who Got Away from Time and Loss," "Rebuttal to Reviewer's Comments on Edits for "Demonstration of a Novel Draconification Protocol in a Human Subject"," "I Want to Dream of a Brief Future," "And That's Why I Gave Up on Magic," "Resistance in a Drop of DNA," "The Last Caricature of Jean Moulin," and "The Leviathan and the Fury."

Author: Andrea Kriz
Publisher: Interstellar Flight Press
Published: 05/06/2024
Pages: 102
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.24d
ISBN: 9781953736321

About the Author
Kriz, Andrea: - Andrea Kriz writes from Massachusetts, where she does research as a molecular biologist. In addition to the stories in this collection, her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld and Lightspeed Magazine, among others, and been translated into French in Galaxies SF. She is also part of the Dartmouth Speculative Fiction Project, a collaboration between authors and Dartmouth faculty to create short stories exploring the future of humanity. You can find her online at https: //andreakriz.wordpress.com/ or on Twitter @theworldshesaw.