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Zima: Origins: A Z-Tech Chronicles Story
Paperback
Series: The Z-Tech Chronicles
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
ISBN13: 9781946907646
Publisher: Water Dragon Pub
Published: Aug 17 2020
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Even artificially intelligent recovering assassins need a home.
Zima's transition from a regime-ending killing machine to stand-up citizen is more difficult than she anticipated. Years of brainwashing have left her with a litany of unpredictable, lethal reactions, which force even her liberators from Z-Tech to cast her out for fear of their own safety.
Alone in San Francisco's Mission District, Zima faces society for the first time - not as a computer inside a cyborg, whose human host managed her day-to-day interactions, but as herself. Emotions, sarcasm - even things as simple as lies - become imposing hurdles in her efforts to integrate.
But she's nothing if not persistent. After days of searching, she meets a teenage boy and his little sister -- each with needs Zima might be able to fill.
Rosa wants a big sister. Emilio is over his head as a mule for a local gang. A blonde, indestructible assassin in search of a home may be just what they need ... if Zima's homicidal tendencies don't kill them first.
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