I can't believe that whole story was only nine pages long. There's so much content in this story that could've lent itself to a much longer runtime. The whole plot is very one-note, which isn't a bad thing. Limitation is often the best way of creating, after all. Now onto the actual story. It wasn't as weird as I originally thought. It's basically like Saw except the "mastermind" is a sentient computer. A lot of concepts in this story are also interesting: immortality, transfiguration, the world itself. Sci-Fi is great at building worlds, so I'm not surprised. One of the themes of this story is the ability of sentience. One of the characters, Ted, has a dream about if AM had legs and other human desires. Ted concludes that AM has such a grudge on humanity because he was created to be just as sentient as humans. But one thing AM can't do is be creative (or in other words, I believe he means have passions like cooking, woodworking, be an arti
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