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 Artificial Intelligence Introspective

More tags 21

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

Content warnings 5

abusebody-horrordeathsuicideviolence

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