Fiction by Ben Brown

Launch Day, a sci-fi short story also available as an ebook: "We had finally done it — artificial general intelligence."

Data Center a sci-fi short story also available as an ebook: "I rappel out of the stolen helicopter just like I've seen in the movies. It is ten thousand times louder than I would have imagined, and though the rope makes a cool zipping sound through my harness, it barely slows me down."

Library a cyberpunk novelette also available in print, and as an ebook: "Come to the library, bring your own disk, maybe a USB keychain, maybe a portable SSD in a nice padded case. Plug in, pull down copies of whatever you want. Ok, not technically legal. The way I figure, this stuff not being available to people, that's the bigger crime. Our whole history, locked up in old drives nobody can read anymore. We're not stealing anybody's intellectual property. We're preserving it.

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