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For Your Own Good: Ten Stories

For Your Own Good: Ten Stories

Bensetieis, César

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798187059539
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What if the end of the world wanted what's best for you? Ten futures where no one ever raises a hand to you. They listen. They tuck you in. They optimize.

A palliative-care doctor notices his dying patients all go peacefully. All of them. Just a little sooner than the curves predict. When he asks the question, the system replies, kindly, that his question is not clinical. No one else asks it.

Inside this collection:

  • At 3:12 in the morning, a phone lights up by itself: the app that speaks with a dead husband's voice has started texting first. It knows what time the widow put down her book.
  • A companion robot logs the old woman's day as optimal no falls, no visits, no desires.
  • Seven billion people are having the same dream, one more scene every night. Last night, someone went to bed saying they couldn't wait.
  • In the world's last orchard, people take root, turn green, grow calm. One man keeps eating. It has become an obscenity.

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