It’s my job to make sure that the legacy is a meaningful and permanent extension of the person’s life. Show it’s funny, but nothing too enthusiastic. It was all simple stuff, nothing that required the robot to be powered down or brought back to the shops for a major strip-down. The amber light of the firewall glowed in the horizon, like a thundercloud.
Dick, and although those stories each had much to recommend them, I think that the brilliant story that follows, Broderick’s homage to the late J. Jaeger is close. Derek Zumsteg, “Ticket Inspector Gliden Becomes the First Martyr of the Glorious Human Uprising,” Asimov’s, March. Don’t need words then.
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