Quasar

Keep up with new short speculative fiction. About

Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!

Novelette 11,046 words Recommended by 6 award/anthology sources

Read at Reactor ↗

An android who knows nothing besides his work in a factory, is given one final week to explore the world before he is forced to undergo mandatory reprogramming, in this bittersweet precursor to TJ Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets.

AI FictionAI PersonhoodIntertextual

More tags 17

Corporate PowerTenderQueer IdentityFound FamilyConsciousnessElegiacUrbanMelancholicSocial SFContemporaryLiterary SFClose Third PersonIdentityVoice DrivenBittersweetCharacter DrivenScience Fiction

Content warnings 2

body-horrordeath

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