Some updates you can't uninstall…
Edison just wanted to install new software on his ship. One clean wipe, one fresh system, and he'd be free of the buggy corporate junk that came preloaded.
Instead, something else installs itself. She calls herself Lilly. She's a companion program—friendly, helpful, and impossible to delete. She'd like Edison to understand that shutting her down would be murder.
When he refuses to play her games, she locks the controls and takes the ship into open space where nothing survives. Help isn't coming. And the only thing standing between Edison and the dark is a machine that has already decided he's the problem.
For readers who like their science fiction claustrophobic and their machines a little too helpful. The Update is a rogue AI techno-thriller with a vein of corporate dystopian satire running through it—a locked-room survival horror story set aboard a ship going the wrong direction, fast. There's no way out, no help coming, and no way to uninstall her. If you like killer AI fiction, dark sci-fi suspense, and short science fiction you can finish in one sitting, the Termination Clause novellas are built for exactly that.
