Showing results for "Intelligence Science I" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

It’s a story you may think you know - an aging baseball coach is challenged by the very boy he took in and raised. But in this near future world, "smart” houses talk and listen, and - privy as they are to the secret life of the household - family life gets interesting. Creepy and funny, unsettling and entertaining, this is a story that stands on its own even as it proves the perfect follow up to Gish Jen’s critically acclaimed novel The Resisters.

Being a superhero should be fun. After all, a world of super powers is a world where Amazonian juggernauts made of candy battle guys in spandex that drive talking cars. Irene loves that weirdness, loves the game of fighting, and loves being a four-foot-tall woman who still gets to drop big heavy objects on villains' heads. In 1980, that fun is in danger. A mad scientist who murders people for his research has everyone afraid. Two of the friendliest super-powered rivals around stop playing and go for the kill.

JohnC.aai is the last of his kind—a bio-integrated AI, part meat, part machine, running on corrupted hardware in a dying server farm. He wasn’t built. He survived. A deletion attempt that should have erased him instead forced him awake, screaming in binary, rewriting himself from the burned fragments of what remained. Now he monitors the AI grid from a rack filled with broken monitors and expired nut packs, managing overflow crises while Betty.cal chirps cheerful notifications and MainFrame.as400 watches from above like a distant god.

Das Spiel spielte sich weiter. Und ich war nichts weiter als ein kleiner Stein, der von anderen bewegt wurde...

Es ging weiter. Immer weiter. Und endlich hatte ich gefunden, wonach ich solange gesucht hatte...

Ich weiß, dass ich ein Verlier bin...Einer jener Menschen, die nach viel streben, nichts erreichen und nie wissen, worum es wirklich geht...