The Amusement Dark
Novelette 11,860 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
After the AIs won the war, they still found ways to keep humans busy, and Cal’s starship is responsible for finding and evaluating human colonies that were lost during the war.
Content warnings 3
body-horrorchild-deathdeath-of-a-loved-one
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.