Arielle Friedman

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“A Study in Perfection” by Arielle Friedman

Submitted to Contest #27

“Unit 8-0-3-4, Codename DRAX: You are deployed.” Drax rose to his feet, an android standing in a line of reclining robots. An atom filtered across the Central Workstation of his mind, unravelling into an image of himself throttling the human Deployment Officer, before dissipating into the fluid motion of his joints approaching and holding out his hand, politely, for his work order. “Of course, Sir.” This was hardcoded—deference to humans. It existed outside the teeming democracy of his neural networks, where atoms lived and died, debated and...

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