Evermore

By: Sean Williams

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

"We must all hang together," Benjamin Franklin is reported to have said to his revolutionary peers, "or we will assuredly all hang separately." This is a sentiment that's even more appropriate, and more urgent, when you're lost between the stars in a crippled and out-of-control ship, your shipmates aren't talking to each other (and haven't for thousands of years), and you don't really exist in the first place. Such is the case in Sean Williams' Evermore. This story was chosen for inclusion in the Seventeenth Annual Collection of The Year's Best Science Fiction.Executive Producer: Laura Wilson
Produced by Paul Ruben
©1999 by Sean Williams. First published in Altair #4
(P)2000 by Random House, Inc.

Good Short SCI-FI

A nice expoloration of what AI modeled after real people would be like, right down to the egos. All too human reactions and feelings are part of a program. This short works on several different levels.

Ever On Thought

Excellent concept. Fascinating - thought provoking. Intriguing. Reader was a little flat for my taste, but that may have been the point. Recommend for anyone interested in the ethos of AI.