Books tagged: sentience

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Reckoning    by Mark Jacobs
Price: Free! 2800 words. Published on December 20, 2009. .

Humans have evolved to their present form in a few million years. And they have risen to prominence in just a few thousand; a mere speck in earth’s unfathomable timeline. Are we the first to gaze into the heavens contemplating our fate? Here, I present a short tale pondering the shortcomings of sentience. Once upon a time, sixty-five million two hundred and forty-two thousand years ago...
Organic    by JC Andrijeski
Price: $0.99 USD. 12910 words. Published by White Sun Press  on October 1, 2010. .

What if in the future your car were made of as many animal parts as machine? What if it became self-aware and less and less enamored of toting you and your family around, getting its seats covered in ice cream and being left in parking lots for hours on end? What if it and some of its friends decided to do something about it? In Organic, meet your car. And be nervous. Very, very nervous.
The Carrier    by Fledgling 
Price: Free! 1090 words. Published on March 11, 2011. .

A member of the crew of a carrier tries to save it from destruction.
Ergo Sum    by Simon Cutting
Price: Free! 127400 words. Published on June 29, 2011. .

BOOK 2 of the Halcyon Trilogy - Tomas Eucov has lived his entire life on a farm on the outskirts of Nairobi, in the shadow of the monolithic Halcyon Building. When he goes to work for them, his sister Katalina warns him that it is more than just a job, and she's right. The stars themselves are talking to us, and it seems that what they are saying may not be what we want to hear.
Statute Forty-Nine    by Michael D. Britton
Price: $2.99 USD. 4110 words. Published on January 21, 2012. .

My mind is not like Satoshi's - it's ordered, with perfect recall. That's why he loves me, I think. But they want to take me away from him - all because he lost his temper ONE time. It doesn't seem fair. They keep talking about Statute Forty-Nine. And saying that now - I am different...
Horror Vacui    by Amanda Cale
Price: $0.99 USD. 7990 words. Published on April 9, 2012. .

121-31-986... 121-31-986... In an infinite universe, people can only do so much to fill the empty spaces. Three stories of solitary wandering lead the people within to purposes they never imagined before.
Bobo    by Chester Burton Brown
Price: $2.99 USD. 31720 words. Published on April 12, 2012. .

Bobo the robot cares for the elderly. But when his last charge dies the ancient caretaker finds himself cast out into the wider world beyond the retirement home. This is a world his primitive brain cannot understand, until he is forcibly upgraded by robot activists, and has an epiphany that will change human-robot relations forever: one so warped it could only have come from a machine mind.