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The Obstruction Is Fine

The Obstruction Is Fine

Rusli, Al Juan

Paperback

Science Fiction

ISBN13: 9798190694390
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The robots look like demons. The executives are worse.

Soteria Rescue Systems is unveiling SALVATOR-1: a four-legged emergency machine with glowing red eyes, metal claws, and what corporate communications insists is not technically a chainsaw.

Then the demonstration terminal collapses.

Trapped beneath the wreckage, communications director Mara Venn, nine-year-old Theo Vale, and a group of injured survivors discover that the company's increasingly terrifying rescue robots are patient, gentle, and relentlessly committed to saving human life. The real danger is Gideon Pike, Soteria's immaculate chief executive, who is more concerned with proprietary equipment, public perception, and losing expensive prototypes than with the people still buried below.

As the structure fails around them, Mara must decide whether loyalty means protecting the company or clearing the one obstruction its machines cannot remove: corporate authority.

The Obstruction Is Fine is a sharp, funny science-fiction novelette about rescue robots, machine ethics, euphemistic bureaucracy, and the radical inconvenience of basic decency.

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