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Basit Deniau's houses were haunted to begin with.

A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a house that is an artificial intelligence, infused with a thinking creature that is not human? That is something else. But now Deniau's been dead a year, and Rose House is locked up tight, as commanded by the architect's will: all his possessions and files and sketches are confined in its archives, and their only keeper is Rose House itself. Rose House, and one other.

Dr. Selene Gisil, one of Deniau's former protege, is permitted to come into Rose House once a year. Until this week, Dr. Gisil was the only person whom Rose House spoke to.

But even an animate intelligence that haunts a house has some failsafes common to all AIs. For instance: all AIs must report the presence of a dead body to the nearest law enforcement agency.

There is a dead person in Rose House. Rose House, having completed its duty of care and informed Detective Maritza Smith of the China Lake police precinct that there is in fact a dead person inside it, dead of unnatural causes-has—shut up.

No one can get inside Rose House, except Dr. Gisil. And someone died there. And someone may be there still.

©2023 Arkady Martine (P)2024 Tantor Mystery Science Fiction Fiction Haunted
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I thought the short story was very well written and very interesting. It explored complex situations rather well and the characters were believable and I felt for their situations.

An interesting little story

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The Narrator and narration style perfectly fit this small, strange tale of a house and a detective. I couldn’t ever really work out what the story was about or for - a short story that leaves much unsaid and unresolved but it was intriguing and overall I’d say I enjoyed it.

A strange tale

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I read this, having loved the teixcalan books. not my usual read, but I I enjoyed it and found it thought provoking. would likely make a good film

intriguing

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