For Want of a Nail

by Mary Robinette Kowal

Overview

This Hugo-nominated short story takes us into space on a generation ship, where an AI and her wrangler have to solve a seemingly simple problem.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012431837
Publisher:	Mary Robinette Kowal
Publication date:	04/27/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	760 KB

About the Author

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of Shades of Milk and Honey Tor, 2010). In 2008 she received the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Her stories appear in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, and several Year’s Best anthologies. She is the Vice President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Mary, a professional puppeteer, also performs as a voice actor, recording fiction for authors such as Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi. She lives in Portland, OR with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters. Visit www.maryrobinettekowal.com

Editorial Reviews

On a generation starship, hard choices have to be made. The AI belonging to one of the ship’s families, who rely on it for not only daily issues, but recording their long history, is damaged. In trying to fix the hardware fault, the current family member who is the AI ‘wrangler’ finds that her predecessor in the role has in fact hacked the AI. The reason : to protect himself from the dementia he realises that he is developing, before anyone else spots it. Why? Because on the

Mark Watson