Checkerboard Planet

Eleanor Arnason Clarkesworld 123 2016

Novelette 11,916 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

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The AIs contract Lydia to check out an unusual planet and the secretive corporation that's supposed to be developing it.

First Contact Artificial Intelligence Philosophical

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Space Opera Corporate Power Colonialism Political Resistance Deep Space Tense Far Future Consciousness Wry Social SF Contemplative Close Third Person Voice Driven Character Driven Science Fiction

Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.

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