Winner winner chicken dinner.
Cassie lives in a world which is 2/3 digital people. She is afflicted with “Emotional Contagion Disorder … a condition with no ascribed cause, but scientists suspect that it has something to do with mirror neurons. Autism adjacent. The brain generating a reverse pareidolia, in that Cassie keeps abstracting noise from the meaning. Like most neurodivergences, it was only diagnosed when the condition became aggravating to those around her, which, in Cassie’s case, was when she stopped listening to her mother and began saying that she wasn’t real.”
Cassie’s mom is real, but she’s digital, because her dad likes HD RealDoll action more than the analog kind, and Cassie is a moody adolescent. She has a creepy boyfriend who torments small AIs, and apologizes for confusing her with a sex bot when she gets angry after he gets handsy. She’s Judy Jetson but fucked up, and I adore her and would totally go see the movie made about this. I am at least 75% compatible with this story.
Isabel J. Kim is a delightful author, I recall reading her stories before and she already has a bunch of trophies under her belt. Which shouldn’t prevent her from earning more.
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