Story 1: “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species”

Reading Check

1. Copper

Short Answer

2. They saw that the Caru’ee were using the stone brain for its intended purpose.

Story 2: “State Change”

Reading Check

3. A beech branch

Short Answer

4. The “state change” happens in a person when their soul takes on a new shape.

Story 3: “The Perfect Match”

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5. “My Way” by Frank Sinatra

Short Answer

6. Centillion began ranking real estate listings based on users’ race.

Story 4: “Good Hunting”

Reading Check

7. Swallow Tail

Short Answer

8. As a member of an ethnic minority and a sex worker, she knows she will be powerless without him.

Story 5: “The Literomancer”

Reading Check

9. Autumn

Short Answer

10. A literomancer is someone who practices divination through letters and words.

Story 6: “Simulacrum”

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11. Anna’s father Paul

Short Answer

12. Paul could have affairs with artificial women but not real living ones.

Story 7: “The Regular”

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13. My Hong Kong, Your Hong Kong

14. Once per day

Short Answer

15. It leaves the impression of a wedding ring, which makes women feel safer.

Story 8: “The Paper Menagerie”

Reading Check

16. Star Wars action figures

Short Answer

17. He thinks that if she were more American, he would fit in better at school and stop being teased.

Story 9: “An Advanced Readers’ Picture Book of Comparative Cognition”