August 18, 2016 06:40 am PDT
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Fiction: Sgt. Augmento, Bruce Sterling's robots-take-our-jobs story
Bruce Sterling's new short story, "Sgt. Augmento," is a eyeball-kicky post-cyberpunk story full of Sterlingian zeitgeist: in the robots-took-our-jobs future, the narrator joins the army to augment his guaranteed minimum income, but finds that overseeing robot combat isn't to his liking, so he musters out into a precarious existence clinging to the side of the sharing economy. (more…)
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