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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
Baxter Asks a Question
A NeuroLink Universe Story
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P34792804
EAN: 9798185883549
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Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Di, 27.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 27.25
Beschreibung
In near-future Portland, software engineer Daniel Chen pays $19,999 for an SL-2 neural implant for his aging golden retriever, Baxter. Within 72 hours, Baxter wakes up with human-level intelligence, a vocabulary of 18,000 words, and ten years of observations he can finally express. The golden days that follow are everything Daniel hoped for - and nothing he expected. Baxter declares squirrels an "organized crime syndicate," develops a near-religious devotion to pizza, and maintains an olfactory file on every neighbor that reveals a street Daniel has lived on for twelve years but never truly seen. But Baxter has been watching longer than Daniel knows. And the question he eventually asks - about whether Daniel will leave him the way he left his ex-wife - forces both of them to confront a truth about presence, absence, and the distance between being somewhere and being there. A standalone short story from the NeuroLink Universe - a series about what happens when the animals we love can finally speak.