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 (This is the only mature story)
• book_burner’s “The Last Optimization”

With a preface by Iceman.

[Ponyfeather Publishing]

This book also includes...

• horizon’s “Koans for the Next Age” from Pony Verse: A Collaborative Collection of Pony Poetry
• Firebirdbtops’s “Two Days to Retirement”
• KrisSnow’s “Flight, the Hard Way”
• Lemma Prism’s “Sky Dust’s Wish”
• pjabrony’s “Tiny Morsels of Satisfaction” (a mini-collection of three one-shots: "D'awwta Storage", "Free Will Isn't Free", and "A Shaggy Pony Story")

...each from Friendship is Optimal: Tiny Morsels of Satisfaction.

[Realase Blog w/ Full Contents]

It also contains:

• Chatoyance’s “Transequinism” (the final chapter of the novel Caelum Est Conterrens, which functions as a short story)

[Hardcover] [Paperback]