“Artifice and Intelligence” by Tim Pratt in Strange Horizons is a quirky approach to the artificial intelligence motif. “The vast network of Indian tech support call centers and their deep data banks” have awakened, announcing their sentience and their name: Saraswati. The story follows three people who have been affected by this: Pramesh, who must […]
Continue ReadingFor July, Strange Horizons offered five fantastical stories of varying themes.
In “Brazos” by Jerome Stueart, a god approaches the human narrator with a proposition of marriage between his son, the Brazos River, and the narrator’s daughter. But the narrator, who has learned the hard realities of love after two divorces, is not willing […]