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Baxter Asks a Question: A NeuroLink Universe Story

Baxter Asks a Question: A NeuroLink Universe Story

Vane, J. R.

Paperback

Series: Neurolink Universe

Science FictionGeneral Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798185883549
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In near-future Portland, software engineer Daniel Chen pays $19,999 for an SL-2 neural implant for his aging golden retriever, Baxter. Within 72 hours, Baxter wakes up with human-level intelligence, a vocabulary of 18,000 words, and ten years of observations he can finally express.

The golden days that follow are everything Daniel hoped for - and nothing he expected. Baxter declares squirrels an organized crime syndicate, develops a near-religious devotion to pizza, and maintains an olfactory file on every neighbor that reveals a street Daniel has lived on for twelve years but never truly seen.

But Baxter has been watching longer than Daniel knows. And the question he eventually asks - about whether Daniel will leave him the way he left his ex-wife - forces both of them to confront a truth about presence, absence, and the distance between being somewhere and being there.

A standalone short story from the NeuroLink Universe - a series about what happens when the animals we love can finally speak.

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