The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
aligning orbits
by torpidgilliver
"What's the Aphelion?"From the pile of discarded files, ART plucked one and trimmed it down for me, just to the salient bits. Even ignoring all of the technical stuff about AI crèches and pair-bonds and artificial empathy development left me with the simple answer "It's complicated." And that complication was about to be tangible, and something I would have to personally deal with."You have a twin."-The universe is a big place, but sometimes happenstance brings two people together after years apart. And sometimes unfortunate SecUnits get stuck in the middle of family reunions for asshole bot pilots.
