Bug's A-Life
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Something small and silvery-black whisked across the screen. It was gone so quickly it was as if it had somehow noticed her observing it.
The homeowner scowled. “What am I looking at?”
Sarah said, “You’ve got robots.”
“Oh, god,” the homeowner said with a breathy exhalation. “This isn’t going to be cheap, is it?”
Elizabeth Bear
ELIZABETH BEAR was the recipient of the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for her short fiction. Bear lives in South Hadley, MA. www.elizabethbear.com @matociquala
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Bug's A-Life - Elizabeth Bear
Bug’s A-Life
WELL.
SARAH SIGHED. There’s your problem right there.
Her finger tapped the screen. She accidentally dragged as well as tapping and enlarged the image grotesquely, losing all definition. She bit back a curse—unprofessional—and resized. Something small and silvery-black whisked across the screen. It was gone so quickly it was as if it had somehow noticed her observing it.
The homeowner scowled. What am I looking at?
Sarah said, You’ve got robots.
Oh, god,
the homeowner said with a breathy exhalation. This isn’t going to be cheap, is it?
THE MICROBOTS HAD GOTTEN into the homeowner’s attic joists and into the insulation space between the interior and exterior walls. The house was over three hundred years old. It dated to the 1760s, and so did its massive roof beams—roughly squared and whittled with cryptic builder’s marks—and the microbots were happily chewing away in the center of those ancient chunks of seasoned oak.