Whose Future Is It? — Steven Barnes

Dive into the new cyberpunk universe of Cellarius with 13 mind-bending short stories. In the year 2084, almost without warning, all the lights go out. Humans become aware of Cellarius, a superintelligent AI, when it takes over all energy infrastructure and communication networks, plunging the world into an analog dark age. Twenty years later, with no explanation, the lights come back on. From 9 writers -- including a Guggenheim Fellow, a New York Times bestseller, and a Nebula winner -- the stories range from psychological thrillers to classic adventure tales, new takes on religious mythologies to human-machine love stories. Whose Future Is It? challenges our ideas of what consciousness can become and explores what it means to be human.