story: Love Machine
author: Samantha Hunt
year: 2017
where: home physically, but mentally with The Man Who Fell to Earth
note: George Saunders, Ovid, and Dostoevsky would have a party in this story
a line: “’Machines,’ he continues, ‘have one of only two choices. Either they are run by humans or else they run themselves. And the way I see it, either choice is no good for me.’”