Tick-Tock
Xia Jia
Clarkesworld
152
2019
ShortStory
4,628 words
Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
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While one man spends all his income on dreams, another works hard creating those dreams.
DystopiaArtificial IntelligenceMetafictional
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AI PersonhoodSecond PersonAI FictionPhilosophicalClass InequalityUnsettlingFragmentedConsciousnessUrbanMelancholicNear FutureLiterary SFContemplativeIdentityScience Fiction
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death
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.
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