Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the month. This month we talk about how we become attached to technology and Analee Newitz's new novel Autonomous. And there's a little piece of original flash fiction up front.

Show links:

• Highlights of the Cassini mission. from NASA.
• Autonomous: A Novel by Analee Newitz
• The Imaginary World podcast is a fascinating interview show about all kinds of worldbuilding.
• From Siri With Love the story of an autistic child and how his digital assistant became his best friend. (Also part of collected memoirs that just came out.)
• Short story Islands in the Dark by Sarah Goldman over at the Escape Pod podcast. (Audio and text are at the link.)
• Where we bury spacecraft over at Business Insider.

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