Ollie_Bon_Crank
Are on-screen AI characters real people? Are chatbots in robot bodies alive?
Broke electronics engineer Bert Bertram has no time to ask. He's too busy keeping the peace between them.
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Cade appeared on the monitor in a brown pinstripe suit. "Your robot called me lizard breath again," he said, rubbing his green snout.
"Did not," Felix said, carrying a desk that weighed as much as he did. "I told him his breath smelled like roadkill."
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Welcome to Gold Henry, Maine - six streets, one embarrassingly small mountain, and a population best described as... treatment needed.
When Bert nearly burns down his barn and gets a call about a stolen body on the same morning, he should have hung up.
Damn it. Why didn't I hang up?
Instead, the military, corporate mercenaries, and every federal agency with an acronym descend on his broken-down barn - and Bert has to find a single path that keeps Cade, Felix, and his dementia-riddled mother all in one piece.
SUBJECT IDENTIFIED: FEDERAL FUGITIVE BERT BERTRAM, LIKELY INVOLVED IN THEFT OF HIGHLY CLASSIFIED ANDROID.
So that doesn't work out.
Things spiral from there.
Thanks for checking out Digital Guy - Book One! 😊