Conveniently available for free PDF download. A compelling idea, here -- a machine is invented which can from a blood sample predict accurately how you'll die, but does so ambiguously, so that OLD AGE might mean you getting old or you being stabbed by an old guy -- which was then riffed on by a whole bunch of people who wrote short stories. The best are collected here. Some names that are known -- Yahtzee Croshaw, Randall Munroe -- and a few good stories in here, but overall the quality is pretty patchy. Still, you can get it for free, so go get it for the good ones.
Conveniently available for free PDF download. A compelling idea, here -- a machine is invented which can from a blood sample predict accurately how you'll die, but does so ambiguously, so that OLD AGE might mean you getting old or you being stabbed by an old guy -- which was then riffed on by a whole bunch of people who wrote short stories. The best are collected here. Some names that are known -- Yahtzee Croshaw, Randall Munroe -- and a few good stories in here, but overall the quality is pretty patchy. Still, you can get it for free, so go get it for the good ones.