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This book collects fifteen works from fifteen authors set in the Optimalverse, a hard sci-fi continuity in which a video game studio creates an artificial intelligence whose single goal is to satisfy human values through friendship and ponies.

It includes:

• Iceman’s “Friendship Is Optimal”
• horizon’s “Koans for the Next Age”
• Starscribe’s “Futile Resistance”
• NuclearPony’s “Just Be Happy”
• Firebirdbtops’s “Two Days to Retirement”
• Syke Jr’s “The Horizon Behind Us”
• KrisSnow’s “Flight, the Hard Way”
• Lemma Prism’s “Sky Dust’s Wish”
• Eakin’s “All the Myriad Worlds”
• Chatoyance’s “Transequinism”
• pjabrony’s “Tiny Morsels of Satisfaction”
• Raugos’s “Terra Online”
• billymorph’s “Requiem”
• Defoloce’s Always Say No
• book_burner’s “The Last Optimization”

With a preface by Iceman.