Love and Robotics by Eyre Rachael

Author:Eyre, Rachael [Eyre, Rachael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-01-14T18:30:00+00:00

Dilemma

Noah Sugar was a conflicted man.

He’d faced ethical questions before. You couldn’t avoid it in his line of work, building life forms with human intelligence but none of the rights. Whether to pay them. Whether children should be left in their care. If they had the right to demolish a robot, should its files become corrupted. If it should be rescued in a disaster. Now this.

He’d never listened to the girls’ reservations. Malik was a malcontent, obsessed with sex - no wonder she’d gone into psychology. Fisk was like every joke about mothers he’d heard. Her beloved “son” spending time with a reprobate? No way!

If the boys liked each other he didn’t see what the big deal was. Josh used to be so mixed up and angry - since they’d been friends, he’d blossomed. And Langton hadn’t been arrested for over a year. All was well in the state of robotics. Until -

Dropping Josh off in Talos, something niggled. It’s not normal to fling yourself on your male friends if you’ve only been apart a fortnight. That summons in the middle of the night, Langton beside himself. His insistence he stayed. Doubts piling, ready to collapse. All they needed was a good shove. That came when he’d finished Josh’s surgery. Almost every part of him was wrapped in bandages; Sugar practically carried him. They went into the corridor and fell over Langton, asleep with his hat over his eyes.

“Gods, that man’s stubborn,” he’d said. “I told him there was no need, but would he listen?”

Sugar stopped, struck by the artificial’s expression. One he’d seen before, though never on a face of Josh’s shape. It wasn’t so much the elephant as the whole flipping circus in the room: He’s mine. He crouched beside the sleeping man, spoke softly. “Hello, you.”

Langton opened his eyes, looked at Josh - and damn it if he wasn’t gazing at him in the exact same way!

Sugar wasn’t naive. He knew these things went on. But it still shocked him to think big, strapping Langton was like that. Though hadn’t there been rumours, thirteen years ago - ?

He’d give the earl the benefit of the doubt. Innocent until proven guilty. Sighing, he picked up his case and set off for work.

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