* Tim Pratt's "Artifice & Intelligence" (short story, science fiction)

A bored AI creates a worthy adversary - another AI & a villain that is meant to wreck havoc to humanity so original AI can play a game with it to save humans!

Collected in.

1. David Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (Ed)'s "Year's Best SF 13" (2008).
   

Fact sheet.

First published: Strange Horizons, 6 Aug 2007.
Rating: B
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Note: Why is this post so short?