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"For Want of a Nail"
"For Want of a Nail" | Mary Robinette Kowal
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"For Want of a Nail" is the 2011 Hugo-nominated story by award-winning author, Mary Robinette Kowal. This science-fiction short story explores the complex choices that an AI and her wrangler must make to solve a seemingly simple technical problem.
Also in this edition, is bonus material that includes author's notes as well as a look at the writing process. The original and unedited first draft of this story has a completely different plot. Read it and the brainstorming notes to get a peek into the creative process.
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speljamr
"For Want of a Nail" | Mary Robinette Kowal
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Mehso-so

I'm tagging a different book by this author here because the search can't find "For Want of a Nail." I really wish they would tie this search in with LibraryThing, because I find it there just fine.

*Note: that is now fixed*

Anyhoo, this was an nice short story about an AI protecting it's original master. It includes the original draft it was born from. Enjoyed it while drinking this tasty blueberry peach cider.

#sciencefiction #scifi

kgriffith That is the long-term plan, but we‘ve set up a manual add page if you want to use it in the meantime: http://www.librarything.com/litsy_addbook_manual.php 5y
speljamr @kgriffith I've used the add feature in the app, but I'm not sure if it goes anywhere. I will try this form. Thank you. 5y
kgriffith @speljamr it doesn‘t. It got unwieldy before LT, and there was no way we were going to be able to catch up on the backlog. Let me know if you see any significant delay using this, it should be fairly instantaneous but it was broken for a bit recently. 5y
speljamr @kgriffith That worked perfectly. I've bookmarked it for future use. 5y
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