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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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Murderbot is captured on a mission, a tortured to death by construct technicians -- slowly disassembled for parts whole it was still conscious.
Through a clever turn off events, Three.1 saves the organic brain tissue and processors/storage that makes Murderbot itself, and ART spares no expense to raise its friend from the dead.
Told from many points of view, it's devastating and heartwarming and gripping. It ends with an entirely believable happier ever after, too
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Recc'd in the newtideland server, for later