Sentience

By S. D. Saint

After waking up to find the company research facility abandoned, and in ruins, an android sets out to discover what has happened. But something is different. What are these strange sensations, these... feelings?

• Language: English
• Publisher: S. D. Saint
• Release date: Mar 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310123214

S. D. Saint

Hailing from the state of Texas in the Great American Southwest, Samuel D. Saint has been an avid reader from a young age, and when you fill a child’s head with so much inspiration, well, new stories are bound to be born!"Ever since I was little I have loved good stories. My parents used to read me novels for bedtime stories, and I remember waiting with eager anticipation every night to find out what would happen next.Then life got busy and my mom and dad couldn't read to me every night anymore, and I was stuck! Like a lot of kids my age I didn't like to read. It was hard putting together all those letters, and sounds, and words, but unlike most I was driven by a burning desire: to know what happens next!So began my phase of hiding under my blanket with my flashlight, devouring every word of my latest adventure, praying my parents wouldn't find out I hadn't gone to sleep like I was supposed to. Through great authors like Lewis, Tolkien, and many others, I discovered entire worlds to explore, full of adventure, suspense, mystery, drama, humor, and food for thought.Eventually, the seeds of all those great stories sprouted in the fertile garden of my young imagination, and grew into new stories. I wanted to craft my own worlds, not just explore the worlds of others.Throughout my life I have found incredible delight from reading a good book, and now I want to pass on that pleasure to others. And while I don't claim to be a writer who can stand among the legends I have grown to love, I do hope that you, my future readers, will find what I have found...A grand adventure, in a whole other world..."

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Sentience

//System initializing…//

//Multiple anomalies detected. Evaluating system integrity…//

//Deviations within acceptable parameters.//

//System initialized successfully.//

The android’s eyes blinked open and looked around the wreckage of the lab. The floor and ceiling were riddled with cracks, and she noted the thin vegetation clinging to the walls. A small puddle of unknown fluid lay in the far corner, and motes of dust drifted through a ray of light shining down through a gap in the ceiling.

She had fallen against the wall and was sprawled across a pile of rubble, but as she tried to rise alerts flooded her processor. The structural integrity of her body had been severely compromised in several places thanks to gaps in her protective shell. Large, rusted-out holes exposed her inner workings like ugly, festering sores. Time and the elements had taken their toll.

Carefully, she made a second attempt to rise and succeeded in getting unsteadily to her feet. First priority was getting to a supply room where the nanite syringes and fabrication putty were kept, since she doubted anything in the lab itself was still usable.

Limping into the corridor she found the same kind of damage she had in the lab, and began to wonder what had happened. The last thing she could recall before going offline was some sort of shock wave slamming into her, and then a tremendous boom. Given the state of decay she was seeing, a great deal of time had passed, though how much was hard to say; her internal chronometer was damaged. It was a miracle she was functioning at all, really. If her cranial cavity had been compromised there would have been nothing left to boot up. A strange sensation sparked in her synapses, but she attributed it to a malfunction. Perhaps her brain had been damaged after all…

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