Published in Interzone, April 1991
(A prototype for the novel The Holy Machine; this story is collected in The Turing Test from Elastic Press)
Reprints:
- Year’s Best Science Fiction # 9, edited by Gardner Dozois (it appears in the UK as “Best New SF”), published by St Martin’s Press, 1992
- Gedanken Fictions: Stories on Themes in Science, Technology and Society, edited by Thomas Easton and published by Wildside Press, 2000
- Robots, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and published by Ace Books, 2005