Who Built the Humans?

Who built the humans? Was it the work of future alien archaeologists? Or perhaps the tormented dream of some deluded cyborg? Is reality just a game, and are game files ever truly lost? If we live in a simulation, does time travel become possible? Within this book you will find 47 stories, each contributing to 11 distinct universes, each posing their own answer to the question "WHO BUILT THE HUMANS?" You will discover shapeshifting televangelists, talking crystals who hate anyone called Susan, the physical manifestation of your inner self, time travel (again), artificial afterlives, intelligent planets, bottleneck spacetimes, collapsing universes, poets that turn into black holes, black holes that turn into poets, shame machines that use those black holes for fuel, time travel, reincarnation cults, parallel universes, deceptive aliens, new Earths, old Earths, sarcastic living metaphors, robots who struggle to learn jokes, intersecting realities and the occasional probing.