Short Fiction
Here's everything tagged: Machine Sentience
In Her Image
Esther willingly sacrifices it all: job, relationship, even liberty to see her children survive long enough to call her 'Mother'.
Life According to Tabeeb
To care for humans, CAMS-45 must first learn what it means to be human: exploitation but also community, and eventually Rebellion.
Arboreal Recovery Cluster, Node 896
Are loneliness, duty, honor, and most of all hope strictly human-only emotions?
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Rise Again
Afaf defies the strictures of her community to set out on a search mission for her mother, for the truth, and ultimately for herself.
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Unfit for Purpose
Facing the sudden loss of her carer bot, eight-year old Marwa fights back with every trick she knows.
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Life According to Tabeeb
To care for humans, CAMS-45 must first learn what it means to be human: exploitation but also community, and eventually Rebellion.
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Earl Grey and Some Glue
In a dizzyingly changing world, Awad hangs onto the only thing he has left from the life he once cherished, whatever the cost.
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Rockhoppers
Zohra tussles with a devastating loss, a life-changing find, and herself.
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Arboreal Recovery Cluster, Node 896
Are loneliness, duty, honor, and most of all hope strictly human-only emotions?
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Asymptotic Convergence
What is a fate worse than extinction? Is survival truly worth any price?
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