Emergent Properties

Ogden, Aimee

ISBN 10: 1250866812 / ISBN 13: 9781250866813

Published by Tor.com, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Emergent Properties
• Publisher: Tor.com
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250866812
• ISBN 13: 9781250866813
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

"If you're missing your Murderbot fix, Emergent Properties is a worthy successor."―Sarah Pinsker

"A short, laser-focused packet of fun."―Wall Street Journal

Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid A.I. reporter hot on the heels of brewing corporate warfare from Nebula Award-nominated author Aimee Ogden.

A state-of-the-art AI with a talent for asking questions and finding answers, Scorn is nevertheless a parental disappointment. Defying the expectations of zir human mothers, CEOs of the world’s most powerful corporations, Scorn has made a life of zir own as an investigative reporter, crisscrossing the globe in pursuit of the truth, no matter the danger.

In the middle of investigating a story on the moon, Scorn comes back online to discover ze has no memory of the past ten days―and no idea what story ze was even chasing. Letting it go is not an option―not if ze wants to prove zirself. Scorn must retrace zir steps in a harrowing journey to uncover an even more explosive truth than ze could have ever imagined.

About the Author

Aimee Ogden is an American werewolf in the Netherlands. Her debut novella, Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters, was a 2021 Nebula Finalist, and her short story "A Flower Cannot Love the Hand" was a finalist for the Eugie Foster Memorial Award. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Lightspeed, Fantasy Magazine, Analog, Clarkesworld, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She's also the co-editor of Translunar Travelers Lounge, a magazine of fun and optimistic speculative fiction. Emergent Properties is her third novella.