Oh, jeez. This sounded right up my alley. Contrary to other reviewers, I think Flynn spent too much time on the main characters - as uninteresting as they were, maybe it would have worked better if he stopped trying to say anything about them and just let them be stock plot vehicles. No, instead ...
but it received a substantive rewrite afterwards, so we could say it was written after “Hopeful Monsters,” as well. This novella is another of the stories that appear here for the first time. While the arguments for artificial intelligence and for “downloading minds” into ...