4,507 words (≈ 18 minutes)
Seran is a Scout fighting alongside other robots in the war against humans. When she detects wreckage of a fallen battleship, an errant process compels her to fight through the human forces and rescue a survivor. She is drawn to the dying robot and the attraction leads her away from the protocols of machine society. Command: Read. Request: Enjoy.
Language: English
Written in: 1994
Published: 2011-10-28
Word count: 4,507 words (≈ 18 minutes)
License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (cc by-nc-nd)
Tags: evolution, war, robot, short story, science fiction
I am a Software Engineer and Consultant, a United States Marine, a martial artist, and an author. You can find more information about my early creative writing and ongoing open source projects on whitefrost.com. I enjoy writing hard and whimsical science fiction, adult fantasy, and poetry. As an early advocate of Creative Commons licensing, many of my short stories and poems have been available online since 1996.
If you would like to learn more about my writing, open source projects such as the Hemi JavaScript Framework, or inquire about unpublished manuscripts and shorts, please contact me at whitefrost.com.
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