Emergent Properties

"If you're missing your Murderbot fix, Emergent Properties is a worthy successor."--Sarah Pinsker

Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid A.I. reporter hot on the heels of brewing corporate warfare from Nebula Award-nominated author Aimee Ogden.

A state-of-the-art AI with a talent for asking questions and finding answers, Scorn is nevertheless a parental disappointment. Defying the expectations of zir human mothers, CEOs of the world's most powerful corporations, Scorn has made a life of zir own as an investigative reporter, crisscrossing the globe in pursuit of the truth, no matter the danger.

In the middle of investigating a story on the moon, Scorn comes back online to discover ze has no memory of the past ten days--and no idea what story ze was even chasing. Letting it go is not an option--not if ze wants to prove zirself. Scorn must retrace zir steps in a harrowing journey to uncover an even more explosive truth than ze could have ever imagined.

Author: Aimee Ogden
Publisher: Tordotcom
Published: 07/25/2023
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250866813


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/24/2023
Library Journal 05/01/2023 pg. 77
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2023

About the Author
Aimee Ogden is an American werewolf in the Netherlands. Her debut novella, Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters, was a 2021 Nebula Finalist, and her short story "A Flower Cannot Love the Hand" was a finalist for the Eugie Foster Memorial Award. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Lightspeed, Fantasy Magazine, Analog, Clarkesworld, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She's also the co-editor of Translunar Travelers Lounge, a magazine of fun and optimistic speculative fiction. Emergent Properties is her third novella.