This was easily & by far, my favourite of all the stories in this series. Here's to Max, the expendable NPC who shouldn't have survived the prologue, but wound up writing the epilogue for the world. This is the second story I've read this year that has an AI (view spoiler) I am unsettled. I'm giving no spoilers (it's short, go read it!) but will say this had a lot to say about humans good and bad. Max, a NPC (non-playing character) breaks out of their programming (I suppose being murdered 2039 times is a grim but good teacher) and sets out on a course that their maker and mentor never saw coming.
I loved this! If not for a true terminus of an ending, I could have read a full-length novel of this story. I'm by no definition a gamer but I am one who enjoys Blake Crouch's writing.
Oscar kill Max with knife two thousand thirty-nine times."
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