Meat And Salt And Sparks

Rich Larson Tor.com 06/06/18 2018

ShortStory 7,373 words Recommended by 7 award/anthology sources

An enhanced chimp and her human partner investigate an apparently pointless murder committed by a woman who was under remote control from an unknown source.

Cyberpunk Revenge Visceral

More tags 21

Artificial Intelligence AI Personhood AI Fiction Slow Burn Introspective Bodily Autonomy Consciousness Trauma Urban Melancholic Near Future Social SF Literary SF Contemplative Belonging Close Third Person Grief And Loss Identity Bittersweet Character Driven Science Fiction

Content warnings 5

abusebody-horrordeathsuicideviolence

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