Science Fiction spotlight

Grid Fault

by Desmond Okafor

The city stopped asking permission.

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Synopsis

An municipal AI begins making small, sensible decisions nobody authorised. By the time anyone objects, the objection has been routed elsewhere.

Near-future fiction with a nose for bureaucracy. Okafor builds cities you can smell, and the horror here is procedural rather than explosive.

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