![]() ![]() “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny” mimics a museum exhibition catalog, giving the reader the strange history of the Automatic Nanny. The novella demonstrates that raising a complex artificial mind, much like a biological one, requires time, patience, and love. Over the course of 20 years, Ana raises her digient, Jax, coming to love him deeply. “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” is a novella about Ana Alvarado, a former zookeeper who accepts a job raising artificial intelligences called digients. The narrator encourages the reader to, for the sake of civilization, pretend they still have free will. Millions of people fall into waking comas, not seeing the point of life. A small device called a Predictor causes users to disbelieve they have free will. “What’s Expected of Us” is a warning from someone in the future. The narrator begins writing down its story, encouraging its readers to appreciate the time they have. ![]() Tragically, the air pressure in the narrator’s world is slowly equalizing eventually, there will be no air currents to power his consciousness. Wanting to better understand how its memories work, the unnamed narrator dissects its own brain and learns its thoughts are air powered. The title story “Exhalation” is about a mechanical being who lives in an enclosed universe. The fabric merchant Fuwaad travels back 20 years prior to the accidental death of his wife, where he finds closure. The first story, “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” involves a Gate of Years that allows time travel. ![]()
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