The Dissonant Note
A science fiction short story published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2018.
How do you kill a virtual mind and take their place? What could possibly go wrong?
Cee in the Sixth Octave, daughter of Eff in the Fifth Octave, sang an invitation to her sister. A single, crystalline note rang across the private mindscapes of eight hundred sister-mothers within the bio-survey ship Agatha Bhatti.