Crowther, Peter (ed) - We Think, Therefore We Are / Краутер, Питер (ред) - Мыслим, следовательно существуем [2009, EPUB, ENG]

Tempest 43 novelette by Stephen Baxter The Highway Code novelette by Brian Stableford Salvage Rites short story by Eric Brown The Kamikaze Code short story by James Lovegrove Adam Robots short story by Adam Roberts Seeds novelette by Tony Ballantyne Lost Places of the Earth short story by Steven Utley The Chinese Room short story by Marly Youmans Three Princesses short story by Robert Reed The New Cyberiad novelette by Paul Di Filippo That Laugh short story by Patrick O'Leary Alles In Ordnung short story by Garry Kilworth Sweats novelette by Keith Brooke Some Fast Thinking Needed short story by Ian Watson Dragon King of the Eastern Sea novelette by Chris Roberson

“The Suicide Matrioshka’s only three hundred kilometers deep and so near the event horizon now!” sang out Dana Darley as she scoped the black hole the clone-crewsome of five were heading for, somewhat inexorably by now. In fact, the five were twice-over cloned, in the sense that they were the virtual representatives of the five organic chaos-clones of Mary Marley, who was chiefing the expedition from a safe distance of a few light hours, assisted by her five selves. Chaos-clones as regards mentality and personality—which should guarantee variety and flexibility on a mission—although their bodies were superficially identical, except for Bango Barley who was male, for recreational reasons and for chilling out since they were all quite likely to unexist presently—the copies of the copies, that’s to say. Unexist was a preferable word to die; and anyway, could an electronic copy of a clone be said to die? . . .