"KILLER STUFF...JUAREZ SQUARE IS SCIENCE FICTION DONE RIGHT, STYLE AND SUBSTANCE IN BALANCE." — SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW
Eleven gripping tales explore the near-future impacts of advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, automated warfare, and genetic engineering.
The award-winning story The Reader, Training the Fundies, and the title work Juarez Square envision an anarchic, cutthroat existence along the US-Mexico border. In Ximena, a defiantly unconventional woman opens a robot brothel in Madrid. The Gianni Box tells the tale of a stolen artificial intelligence that becomes the hottest designer in the fashion world. The Jacob Seeds takes place on a man-made floating island nation, where a scientist's revolutionary breakthrough in genetically-modified food becomes the prize of a high-stakes, winner-take-all political battle.