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Man vs Machine
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Complete, First published Feb 23, 2020
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You know the day is going to suck when you come to the kitchen and the espresso machine has scampered off. Seriously: to what length do we have to go in order to get some coffee? This tongue-in-cheek story has the protagonist face the fact that his kitchen appliances have a will of their own...
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Artificial(ish) Intelligence

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It's the near future and Will, supported purely by the Universal Basic Income, spends his days playing video games while devouring piping hot noodles, delivered straight to his room by roaming DeliveryBots. Gamers are starving to death, but Will's more focussed on showing he's the best strategist in the world, and to do that he needs the help of his new autonomous flying selfie camera. One problem: the SelfieBot insists it's not a robot at all, but a human consciousness trapped inside a machine. To uncover the truth, he must sneak past automated robot guards with bad cockney accents, avoid lasers from swooping DefenceBots, escape explosions from anti-automation activists, outwit two murderous brothers, and flee from a human resources director hell-bent on exacting revenge on her cheating boss. He might even get to eat those piping hot noodles.