In a future where the rich kids are being raised with a digital Cyrano beside them to sweet-talk their way into the best jobs, four friends train together for a battle to prove that other kinds of minds might still have the edge.
My new story “Understudies” in Clarkesworld.
Link: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/egan_10_25/
If you like this story — or any of the other stories in Clarkesworld — please think about subscribing if you can. Clarkesworld pay their contributors and staff for their work, and money doesn’t fall from the sky.
Greg Egan
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