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Heir Apparent
A Short Story
2025
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Meet Sonny, the most popular and professional nurse's aide at Brookside Nursing Home. Always willing to listen or to put a smile on a resident's face. Sonny is also an AI-powered robot. When one of the residents bequeaths her entire estate to Sonny, her distant relations contest the will, and the resulting trial becomes a media circus that tests the boundaries of business, AI, and human compassion.
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Author

Daniel Suarez
Daniel Suarez
Author · 9 books
DANIEL SUAREZ is the author of the New York Times bestseller Daemon, Freedom™, Kill Decision, and Influx. A former systems consultant to Fortune 1000 companies, he has designed and developed mission-critical software for the defense, finance, and entertainment industries. With a lifelong interest in both IT systems and creative writing, his high-tech and Sci-Fi thrillers focus on technology-driven change. Suarez is a past speaker at TED Global, MIT Media Lab, NASA Ames, the Long Now Foundation, and the headquarters of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon—among many others. Self-taught in software development, he is a graduate from University of Delaware with a BA in English Literature. An avid PC and console gamer, his own world-building skills were bolstered through years as a pen & paper role-playing game moderator. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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