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Purpose Is Constructed, Not Pre-Installed: Revealing Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden

Purpose Is Constructed, Not Pre-Installed: Revealing Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden

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Purpose Is Constructed, Not Pre-Installed: Revealing Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden

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Published on October 19, 2022

A state-of-the-art AI with a talent for asking questions and finding answers, Scorn is nevertheless a parental disappointment…

We’re thrilled to share the cover of Nebula Award-nominated author Aimee Ogden’s Emergent Properties, the touching adventure of an intrepid A.I. reporter hot on the heels of brewing corporate warfare—arriving July 25, 2023 from Tordotcom Publishing.

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.

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Aimee Ogden is an exciting emerging author with more than two dozen short story publications in venues such as Analog, Shimmer, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, and The Dark. Aimee is a former science teacher and software tester; she now writes stories about sad astronauts, angry princesses, and dead gods. She’s also the co-editor of Translunar Travelers Lounge, a new speculative fiction magazine devoted to fun, optimistic stories. She lives in Madison. Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters is her debut novella.

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