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Stuck in the middle

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  1. David Lee Zweifler

    1. David Lee Zweifler spends his days sowing the seeds of his own demise as a technology marketer. By night he writes fiction, railing against his alien and robot overlords. This work appears in Little Blue Marble, The Dread Machine, The Paramnesia anthology from Grendel Press, and Shortwave Media’s Obsolescence anthology. He has upcoming stories in Analog and Calliope Interactive. His website is davidleezweifler.com.

A small, anguished human figure sits trapped within a wireframe cage that makes up the computer-generated head of a larger human figure

Illustration by Jacey

Hey. Buddy. Pal. Muchacho.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03724-w

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