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Bernardo's House by Hugo & Nebula Award-winner James Patrick Kelly (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia), one of my favourite writers for what I've read of his short stories, of which you may know best his "Think Like A Dinosaur", which was also adapted into a
The Outer Limits episode. This is a short piece about the ramifications of domestic AI, originally out as a chapterbook from the now-defunct Fictionwise
in 2004.
A domotic story, a conscious living house who speaks and shows, through the objects that fill her, the need to be inhabited, to be eternally possessed by a tenant.
Get ready for an unusual visit to "Bernardo's House", where the topic of home automation is inseparably interwoven with Artificial Intelligence: what would happen if such a House would lose her "beloved tenant", and if in his place - with a totally unexpected visit - came a strange figure? Unknown to the House, which will question each and every certainty of her life.