Elizabeth Bear: 2 books

A man has been turned inside-out. Fifty years in the future, in the sleek modern city of Bangalore, a scientist working on revolutionary bioengineering techniques has been discovered inside his own locked home, his body converted into a neat toroidal package of meat. It's up to Police Sub-Inspector...

Something small and silvery-black whisked across the screen. It was gone so quickly it was as if it had somehow noticed her observing it. The homeowner scowled. “What am I looking at?” Sarah said, “You’ve got robots.” “Oh, god,” the homeowner said with a breathy exhalation. “This isn’t going to be cheap, is it?”