Killing Buddy

by Martin L. Shoemaker

Dan Bachelder invented the perfect best Buddy, the first commercially successful artificial intelligence. Buddy is friendly, loyal, and eager to please, and has made Dan a very rich man... and he's driving Dan crazy! Dan wants a normal life again, and a chance to get to know Margo, the intriguing woman from his art class; but wherever Dan goes, Buddy follows, and everything goes wrong. Dan sees only one way killing Buddy. If only it were that easy...

66 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 9, 2015

About the author

Martin L. Shoemaker has dual careers as a software programmer and as an acclaimed, award-winning short story writer. He’s also the author of two novels, The Last Dance and The Last Campaign, installments in the Near Earth Mysteries science fiction series.

Reviews

[Jen Haeger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Programming joke turned love story

I highly recommend this story. Even though I am painfully computer illiterate (or at least programming illiterate), this was still a highly entertaining tale. :)