Insaan Hain, Farishte Nahin

Arula Ratnakar Clarkesworld 152 2019

Novelette 11,379 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

Meena’s plan to send a tiny starship to Alpha Centauri with a downloaded copy of her own mind goes awry when the starship hits something when it’s just a fraction of the way there.

Near Future AI Personhood Second Person

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Philosophical Motherhood Deep Space Consciousness Lyrical Prose Intimate Memory Literary SF Contemplative Literary Identity Bittersweet Character Driven Science Fiction

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

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