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This story is titled 33% Joe and is by Suzanne Palmer.

Now Suzanne Palmer is a writer and Linux System Administrator who lives in Western Massachusetts.

Her work has appeared frequently in Asimov's, an Analogue,

and her Clark's World Story The Secret Life of Bots won the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Her first novel, Finder, comes out from

Daw in April 2018. And as we mentioned, go back to September 2017 for the Hugo Award winning

Novelette, the Secret Life of Bots.

So my dear listeners I do hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story.

C. C.C.

Welcome online Cybernetic elbow model C. I 953-L.

This is your introductory initial boot orientation.

You are currently in a locked and muted configuration while external medical systems run diagnostics

to see that your replacement procedure has been fully successful.

If so, you will fully join the collective cybernetic units that currently comprise,

with your addition, approximately 33% of the biological unit known as Joe.

Joe's organic consciousness is currently offline through chemical means as a necessary part of his recovery from his most recent combat injuries.

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