Picked up this novella, or more like a single short story, in the Steven Sterk bookstore in Utrecht. A 2024 English translation from the original 1972 in Spanish, by Argentinian author Ángel Bonomini (1929-1994).
Unambitious and detached legal scholar is invited to a Swiss university for a summer, along with 23 others that turn out to be full Doppelgängers. Enjoyable, quick read.
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Deep Learning (Robot Dreams 2), by Ren Warom
Deep Learning by Ren Warom is the second of four novellas in which different authors explore what robots might dream of. Do androids dream of electric sheep? In this novella, Niner only works because of a glitch. Through its various ‘life’ stages it fights internal insanity caused by the information overload from permanent entanglement with the minds of all who commanded him at some point, while being limited in its communication to commands and responses. It seems to work well, mostly because the internal vortex is invisible to humans. Set in a post-climate-urgency world where everyone fights over the last bits of livable land in the USA.