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We’ll come for you in a year…
Mikhail Papusha
Eva Lafleur Translator
© Mikhail Papusha, 2021
© Eva Lafleur, translation, 2021
ISBN 978-5-0053-1563-2
Created with Ridero smart publishing system
We’ll come for you in a year…
We’ll come for you in a year…
It was these very words that Victor had heard when he decided to become the first human on a new terraformed planet. More than half the year had passed since he stopped receiving news from home. He, of course, guessed that the path would be one-way, but so abruptly he was cut off from communication with the Earth…
«Fun, they left me» the astronaut thought ironically to himself, although a feeling of nagging, piercing melancholy enveloped him. Why did he decide on this adventure then? Who knows…
«Auari, please pour some tea.»
AuArI is an Autonomous Artificial Interlocutor, artificial intelligence of the residential building in which he lived.
«You won’t fall apart, if you pour yourself some tea,» Auari replied.
«Please!»
«Well, okay,«the soulless machine grudgingly replied. «Stick out your finger.»
«Bloodsucker,» Victor muttered to himself, but still allowed her to do as she planned.
Auari pricked him with a sharp needle.