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Timons Esaias Asimov's 01-02|20 2020

ShortStory 3,805 words Recommended by 5 award/anthology sources

An obsolete “Panda Pillow” finds itself in the middle of an airplane disaster, where its programming to comfort and defend doesn’t really work. Or does it?

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Darkly Comic Friendship Warm Fast Paced Sacrifice Tense Near Future Survival Close Third Person Voice Driven Science Fiction

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death

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