The Need For Consciousness

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Reads 101
Votes 9
Parts 2
Time 10m

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Follow the story of a desperate one-man operation to seek out and deactivate a robot who has apparently murdered an entire human colony on a distant planet. A planet with no indigenous animal life but plenty of indigenous and extremely lethal plant life. A great story to read if you are interested in descriptions and original behaviours of alien life-forms.

The Need For Consciousness is a 8,000 word sci-fi story by T. J. P. Campbell divided into 5 chapters. It is a proof-read pre-published version with good grammar and punctuation.

The published version has a style improvement. Amazon at present does not allow the published versions to be read on other publishing systems. Minimal images included for speed of reading on phones and laptops.

Soon to be published in 2020. This story is completely original and also included in the Robot Horizon anthology by  T. J. P. Campbell.All Rights Reserved

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