The Open Source Woman

By J. Daniel Sawyer

Everybody lies—especially when dating. Fortunately, Luke has your back. A self-appointed honesty enforcer, he volunteers at bars using VR optics and data mining in his quest to referee the game of love. He'll keep you honest and send you home happy...if you play fair.
But a world without secrets holds all kinds of surprises, even for Luke—like transparency activists, and broken hearts, and the unexpected appearance of an Open Source Woman.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AWP Science Fiction
• Release date: Apr 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386123934

J. Daniel Sawyer

WHILE STAR WARS and STAR TREK seeded J. Daniel Sawyer's passion for the unknown, his childhood in academia gave him a deep love of history and an obsession with how the future emerges from the past. This obsession led him through adventures in the film industry, the music industry, venture capital firms in the startup culture of Silicon Valley, and a career creating novels and audiobooks exploring the worlds that assemble themselves in his head. His travels with bohemians, burners, historians, theologians, and inventors led him eventually to a rural exile where he uses the quiet to write, walk on the beach, and manage a pair of production companies that bring innovative stories to the ears of audiences across the world. For stories, contact info, podcasts, and more, visit his home page at http://www.jdsawyer.net

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The Open Source Woman

by J. Daniel Sawyer

AWP Science Fiction

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The Open Source Woman

Everybody lies—especially when dating. Fortunately, Luke has your back. A self-appointed honesty enforcer, he volunteers at bars using VR optics and data mining in his quest to referee the game of love. He'll keep you honest and send you home happy...if you play fair.

But a world without secrets holds all kinds of surprises, even for Luke—like transparency activists, and broken hearts, and the unexpected appearance of an Open Source Woman.

The Open Source Woman

J. Daniel Sawyer

Dedication 

For Elizabeth

The Open Source Woman

The moment he spotted her, Luke knew everything he needed to know about her to make his decision. Unfortunately for Luke, she wasn't the one he really needed information about. It didn't help that, until she walked in, he'd been otherwise occupied with his primary hobby, which his mother called meddling in the affairs of others, because she was one of those people who just didn't get it.

The low-hanging flood lights painting the room with little pools of dazzling occupied by about thirty sitting people. Shortly before she walked in, his attention had been occupied by a couple on the far side of the bar, past the long mahogany high table. It was a garden-variety pickup, the kind Luke had seen a few thousand times, the kind he'd even engaged in back before he’d learned the hard way. Back before he'd found the collective and gotten things figured out.

The woman in the prospective couple hadn't figured things out yet—neither had the man, as was obvious from Luke's vantage point forty feet away. He could see that the moment he looked at the woman and her metadata popped up around her, the display framing her as Luke