Fiona Moore

Kenichi (Ken) Usagi, journalist turned war correspondent, desperately misses the days before the apocalypse. In the middle of the battlefield that was the United States, he has a terrifying encounter with a biomechanical figure he'd never encountered before. But as shaken as he is by the experience, he realizes this new tech could hold the secret to saving his world.He sets out with a pair of friends across the war-ravaged land, encountering more strange tech, and finds himself in Mesoamerica. There he encounters one of the giant black pyramids he's observed on his journey. Thinking it may hold the answers he needs, he and his friends enter the pyramid, only to discover it isn't what they think. Will Ken find the answers he needs to take his world back to a pre-apocalyptic time or will he unwittingly ensure his world's final demise?

Fiona Moore is a Canadian-born academic, writer and critic living in London. Her work has been shortlisted for BSFA Awards and a World Fantasy Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Asimov's, Interzone, ParSec and elsewhere, and has been selected for four consecutive editions of The Best of British Science Fiction.Eighteen stories drawn from more than a decade of publications, plus the title story: a brand new novelette that appears here for the first time. From a woman rebelling against the corporation that has turned her into living, breathing product placement to a story of misfit automata that have outlived their sell-by date. From a murder case involving an AI car to the hunt for a sentient battle tank lost somewhere in the jungle... These stories show us disturbing futures that may be a lot closer than we like to think.Contents: Terms And ConditionsMorning in the Republic of AmericaSelma EatsDoomed YouthLeave Only FootprintsThe Ghosts of TreesPush A Little ButtonThe Island of Misfit ToysMnemotechnicThe Kindly RaceProteus in the CityThat Fish Sex MovieRabbit SeasonThe Mouse TrapThe Stepford AppJoleneThe LoriHuman ResourcesEvery Little StarAbout the AuthorOf The Lori: "From a technology perspective, this is a beautiful example of how real AI might fail." - Rocket Stack RankOf Every Little Star: "It's a great story, well thought out and well dramatized" - Locus (staff pick)

In Global Taiwanese, Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates in London and Toronto, along with professionals living in Taipei, use their shared Taiwanese identities to construct and maintain global and local networks. Based on a three-year-long ethnographic study that incorporates interviews with people from diverse backgrounds, generations, and histories, this book explores what their different experiences tell us about migration in "tolerant" and "hostile" regimes. Global Taiwanese considers the implications in leveraging their Taiwanese ethnic identity for both business and personal purposes. As people become increasingly mobile, ethnic identity becomes more important as a means of negotiating transnational encounters; however, at the same time, the opportunities it offers are rooted in local cultural practices, requiring professionals and other migrants to develop complex social strategies that link and cross the global and local levels. With rich ethnographic detail, this book contributes to the understanding of the migrant experience and how it varies from location to location, how migration more generally changes in response to wider socioeconomic factors, and, finally, of the specific case of Taiwan and how the distinctive nature of its diaspora emerges through wider discourses of Chineseness and pan-Asian identity.

This volume explores how the idea of 'culture' is used and exploited by transnational managers to further their own ambitions and their companies' strategies for expansion. It thus provides a more complex picture of culture than has previously been presented in business studies, in that it deals with the strategic value of culture within organizations rather than viewing it as a neutral concept and, through using qualitative methodologies, gives us a full picture of the lived experience of culture in a multinational corporation. It also considers the impact of global corporate activity on both national and organizational cultures, as well as looking specifically at the ways in which communications technology is used as a site of conflict and negotiation in business. This book will be an invaluable resource for both researchers and professionals, yielding important new insights into the roles of local and global cultures in the operation of transnational corporations.