"Invisible Planets: Collected fiction" by Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollanz, 2016)

Stories from Interzone, etc. "The best and most original debut anthology since Angela Carter's Fireworks 40 years ago" (Wall Street Journal)

There's hard SF (walls are firewalls), fantasy (the city of Paris falls in love with a 40 y.o. Finnish farmer), micro/twitter pieces, and a text where some choices were made by readers wearing brainwave-reading headsets (I liked the result - "Snow White is dead"). "Skywalker of Earth" is almost a novella - a piece with HG Wells overtones.

I had trouble engaging with several of the stories. There are many fragments I could have quoted though. Here are a few -

• "I was a quacker," I say slowly, "a quantum hacker. And when the Fish-source came out, I tinkered with it, just like pretty much every geek on the planet. And I got mine to compile: My own Friendly AI slave. Idiot-proof supergoal system, just designed to turn me from a sack of flesh into a Jack Kirby New God, not to harm anybody else. Or so it told me."
• "The zeppelin shakes, pseudomatter armor sparkling. The dark sky around the Marquis is full of fire-breathing beetles. We rush past the human statues in the ballroom and into the laboratory. The cat does the dirty work, granting me a brief escape into virtual abstraction
• Zywie is a silent planet ... nothing but the dried placenta of an ancient birth
• Home is simply the clearest mirror to show the pattern that you seek

Other reviews

• Daniel Carpenter (incoherent connections and lack of thought in overall structure make it an ultimately unexceptional and fairly bland read. ... in the titular story ... Rajaniemi’s prose comes across best with a poetic style that isn’t quite found anywhere ... However, before we get to that point, we have to trudge through several fairly mediocre stories about moon magicians, servers and dragons. Rajaniemi also has a tendency to throw in last minute twists that, although they make sense, feel like last minute adjustments to an unsatisfying tale.)
• Gareth D. Jones ( ‘Skywalker Of Earth’ which weaves together high-concept physics with American paranoia and Golden Age Science Fiction imagery ...I think this is my favourite of the book. ... The fantasy/fable stories included in this volume were a surprise as well as a bit of a disappointment for me. Not that they were bad stories, but they’re not what I was looking for.)