The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Just utterly beautiful and hugely thought provoking.

I read this about five years ago when it was first published in an online magazine, and it has stayed with me since. I really should reread it, but it is blazed into my memory as if I read it yesterday.

Both the beauty and thoughtfulness build slowly in a surprising fashion. What initially seems just another modern tech-inspired SF short slowly metamorphoses into something very special indeed.

It's not about technology, not below the surface, it's about what it means to be a person, what it means to care, and what it means to love another.