A Good Home

Karin Lowachee Lightspeed 73 2016

ShortStory 6,718 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources

A disabled human veteran takes in a disabled AI veteran. The AI doesn't talk anymore due to trauma, but Tawn tries to get through to it, even though his mother thinks it's dangerous.

AI Fiction AI Personhood Slow Burn

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Tender Found Family Warm Trauma Intimate Near Future Social SF Contemporary Literary SF Contemplative Belonging Close Third Person Identity Bittersweet Character Driven Science Fiction

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