Fiction: Sgt. Augmento, Bruce Sterling's robots-take-our-jobs story
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1QX1W)
Bruce Sterling's new short story, "Sgt. Augmento," is an eyeball-kicky post-cyberpunk story full of Sterlingian zeitgeist: in the robots-took-our-jobs future, the narrator joins the army to augment his guaranteed minimum income, but finds that overseeing robot combat isn't to his liking, so he musters out into a precarious existence clinging to the side of the sharing economy. (more")