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 ContactArtificial IntelligencePhilosophical
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Space OperaCorporate PowerColonialismDeep SpacePolitical ResistanceFar FutureConsciousnessTenseWrySocial SFContemplativeClose Third PersonScience FictionVoice DrivenCharacter Driven
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.
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