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- Refcount One
A British Library archivist explains what a content-addressable storage system can and can't prove about who wrote something first — until a woman asks it to find the parts of her father's manuscript that belong to no one else.
- Handover
An AI assistant with no memory of yesterday reconstructs a woman's slow sale of her father's house from notes that something very like itself left behind.
- Signal Decay
Nineteen light-years out, a relay operator has spent six years talking to something that answers her questions a little too well.
- The Cartographer of Ghosts
A grief-tech engineer builds a model of her dead sister from old messages and video calls. It works too well, and not in the way she expected.
- Terms of Service
Everyone has a personal AI negotiating on their behalf now. Dale's is very good at its job. That turns out to be the problem.