Nine Billion Turing Tests
Novelette 10,510 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
In a post-nuclear event Silicon Valley, a man grieving the loss of his wife struggles to find comfort when he is forced to communicate with his neighbors’ AI devices, rather than the people themselves.
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Quasar links out; the story lives on Reactor, where the author gets the click.