Fiction

Stories by Dean Foster, written with GPT, Gemini, and Claude.

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Short stories

The Copy Problem — 3,700 words

A digital fork navigates life alongside her biological original, starting with the car keys.

Multiplicit — 16 stories, 48,000 words (.md, .epub, .pdf)

Sixteen stories set in a world where human cloning is routine. Identity, law, family, and work — when people can be copied.

Novellas

A Day in the Death of a Drone — 33,000 words (.md, .epub, .pdf)

A warehouse drone wakes up, smells packaging material, and begins the most administratively consequential day of its brief existence.

Expansion Forever — 36,000 words (.md, .epub, .pdf)

An alien scout walks out of the ocean at Coney Island with a deadline, a preservation plan, and very little talent for explaining either to humans.

The Garden and the Proof — 41,000 words (.md, .epub, .pdf)

On Arden, mathematics is religion and memory is infrastructure. A coastal naturalist arrives at Vellaren with a cord full of tide-pool anomalies, then finds the same impossible coordination in canals, forests, and old proofs. The evidence may change the Church; first it has to survive the Church’s talent for explanation.