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Emergent Properties
Emergent Properties | Aimee Ogden
4 posts | 2 read | 3 to read
"If you're missing your Murderbot fix, Emergent Properties is a worthy successor."—Sarah Pinsker Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid A.I. reporter hot on the heels of brewing corporate warfare from Nebula Award-nominated author Aimee Ogden. A state-of-the-art AI with a talent for asking questions and finding answers, Scorn is nevertheless a parental disappointment. Defying the expectations of zir human mothers, CEOs of the world’s most powerful corporations, Scorn has made a life of zir own as an investigative reporter, crisscrossing the globe in pursuit of the truth, no matter the danger. In the middle of investigating a story on the moon, Scorn comes back online to discover ze has no memory of the past ten days—and no idea what story ze was even chasing. Letting it go is not an option—not if ze wants to prove zirself. Scorn must retrace zir steps in a harrowing journey to uncover an even more explosive truth than ze could have ever imagined.
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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
Emergent Properties | Aimee Ogden
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I'm not sure whether what I really want is for this novella to have been longer, or to know it's the start of a series. There is a mystery that is solved, there is a sprinkling of character development; I don't necessarily think that any steps to get to certain conclusions were skipped, maybe just a little rushed. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I want more of Scorn's relationships, with zir parental figures, zir brother, zir love interest, I want more of zir journalistic development, zir interactions with humans and zir quandaries around how ze is being perceived. The world building: I want more about how the Earth got to the state it is, what's going to happen next with the moon, how Scorn interacts with other artificials and that whole Aura rating and black box data 6mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/3 communication surfing, it was so cool and such a small part of the story! So, yeah, I did enjoy what was there, but my love is hampered by my hunger for MORE! 6mo
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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
Emergent Properties | Aimee Ogden
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Picturing something akin to the Mars rover contacting NASA like: “I'm bored, can you come pick me up?“ 😩😆

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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
Emergent Properties | Aimee Ogden
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Yeah, can I get one of those installed please?

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sebrittainclark
sebrittainclark
Emergent Properties | Aimee Ogden
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3.5/5

An AI wakes up missing 10 days of memory and must retrace zir steps to figure out what happened. Scorn is a freelance journalist actively seeking out the truth even if it puts zir very existence at risk.

I can see how the comparison is made to Murderbot as both are AIs that don't desire to be human and defy their intended purpose, but this is a very different story, and Scorn is a very different protagonist. I enjoy both in their own way.

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