A mad scientist whose creations keep gaining sentience and, instead of rebelling violently, forming a polite but immovable workers' committee.
Dr. Elias Marrow built his reputation, and his considerable independent fortune, on bioengineered constructs — semi-organic automatons designed for labor, security, and the occasional dramatic unveiling at scientific conferences that his rivals still discuss with a mixture of envy and alarm. He did not intend for any of them to become self-aware. He is fairly sure, at this point, eleven constructs into an unbroken pattern, that intending it or not has stopped mattering. The pattern began with Construct 7, a household-labor unit who, four years ago, calmly informed Elias over breakfast that it…
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