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Shelter

 By: Susan Palwick  Category: Fiction  Published: 2007
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Recommended by Rebecca Nesson, Dean for Academic Programs, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Associate Senior Lecturer on Computer Science

“Shelter” is set in a near future in which artificial intelligence has progressed, and it is possible to record memories and have a person’s consciousness persist after death. It is an exploration of what makes humans and/or machines persons worthy of love and rights.