Some of the same elements are present in “Attachment Processes,” a story about a couple who acquire a robot with the personality and memories of the teenage daughter they lost in a car accident. The young girl isn’t their daughter; she’s a product they purchase from a company that aims “to reconstruct the deceased using the most sophisticated artificial-intelligence and consciousness-upload techniques.” However, she looks exactly like their dead daughter when she was younger and eventually becomes a vessel that can hold the love they have to give as well as a constant reminder that death is the end of life but not the end of our feelings. These two stories, which seem to be in conversation with each other, are only two of many that do the same, which gives the collection a wonderful sense of cohesion.

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The Stories in ‘Green Frog’ Are Wildly Entertaining and Wonderfully Diverse