Pamela 2.0: Sci-Fi Sizzlers, #12

By Craig A. Falconer

Every home could use an extra helping hand...

Meet Pamela 2.0, the latest and greatest incarnation of a gadget like no other.

Increased intelligence! Greater dexterity! Faster responsiveness!

The lucky tech reviewer who receives the first prototype quickly learns that Pamela 2.0 represents a quantum leap in consumer robotics, capable of meeting a modern homeowner's every need.

Eager to please by following any order that doesn't involve physical contact with a human, there's almost nothing Pamela can't do — she takes out the trash, she washes the dishes, she feeds the dog.

But sometimes, just sometimes, she thinks for herself.

Today, Pamela arrived with one objective: to secure a positive review from her influential host. And one way or another, she'll stop at nothing to get it...

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Pamela 2.0 is the second in a new series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer

• Language: English
• Publisher: Craig A. Falconer
• Release date: Nov 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223587088

Craig A. Falconer

Craig A. Falconer is a sci-fi author from Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Pamela 2.0

PAMELA 2.0

CRAIG A. FALCONER

Pamela 2.0

© 2020 Craig A. Falconer

This edition published November 2023.

The characters and events herein are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Author’s Notes

Books by Craig A. Falconer

THE EARTHBURST SAGA

Last Man Standing

Into The Fire

Operation Starshot

The Anomaly

Reason To Fear

The Last Horizon

Echoes Of Destiny

The Reckoning

All Or Nothing

NOT ALONE SERIES

Not Alone: First Encounter (Prequel)

Not Alone

Not Alone: Second Contact

Not Alone: The Final Call

~ Contact Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: Fractured Union

Not Alone: Leap of Destiny

Not Alone: Revelations

~ Discovery Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: The Awakening

Not Alone: Hidden Wonder

Not Alone: Endgame

~ Evolution Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: Origins

TERRADOX SERIES

Terradox Zero: Before The Crash (Prequel)

Terradox

The Fall of Terradox

Terradox Reborn

Terradox Beyond

~ Worlds Away collection ~

~ Terradox Quadrilogy box set ~

CYBER SEED SERIES

Sycamore

Sycamore 2

Sycamore X

Sycamore XL

~ Cyber Seed Compendium Box Set ~

SCI-FI SIZZLERS

Wanderlust

Bound For Glory

Sunset Stays

Arise With Us

Whence They Came

Replica

Megaton Murphy

A Scent Of Man

Yester Year

Too Good To Be True

Happy, Inc.

Pamela 2.0

Funscreen

Pumpkin Splice

When Santa Slays

~ Chasing Tomorrows 15-Book Box Set ~

Seedling

Empty Nesters

A Savage In The Future

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"Technology is a useful servant

but a dangerous master."

Christian Lous Lange

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With only three minutes of the pre-9am delivery window remaining, and with Simon Biker’s patience stretching to limits he’d never thought possible, the sudden chiming of a two-tone doorbell sent him scurrying across the floor like a cat on an ice rink.

Simon gladly abandoned the unusually elaborate breakfast that lay on his counter, one he had prepared in an effort to distract his excited mind from fixating on the ticking of the clock and the non-ringing of the doorbell.

Now that the time had finally come — now that the package had finally come — food was the last thing on his mind.

Yanking the door open as though trying to escape from a burning vehicle, Simon startled the doorman who stood with a shoebox-sized package in his hands.

Oh! Good morning, Mr Biker, the man said, smiling as the initial surprise wore off. "The courier did tell me you’d be eagerly awaiting this..."

Sorry, Charles, Simon laughed. Didn’t mean to jump out at you like that. But yeah, I’ve been counting down the seconds until 9am and then I would have been ready to start sending some emails.

Charles,