A Cursor Story
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  • Reads 1,079
  • Votes 133
  • Parts 35
  • Time 4h 18m
Complete, First published Jun 17, 2019
*****One of the Winners of Icey Penguin Awards under Science Fiction category ******

In the era of quantum computing where most of mankind's work is handled by a massive central computer the GRIID, the otherwise ordinary cursors grow into ultra-advanced Artificial Intelligence programs capable of showing human-like intelligence with a primary aim of securing a never-ending supply of computing power. The cursors form a community, utilize their human sympathizers to fulfill their aims but their plans hit a roadblock when their staunch enemy Anti-Cursor enters the fray. 

The hunt for resources offered by GRIID leaves the humans deprived of their greatest invention and blackmailed to mortgage their dignity before an alien threat. 

A story set in a not too distant future, an interplay of humanity and its own invention bringing out the true meaning of courage, determinations, values and what it means to be truly intelligent and truly human. 
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