Five essays on patented medicine, a pirate’s product liability, indenture, programmed love, and partial victory in a world where drugs, code, and persons can be owned.
Annalee Newitz's 2017 work Autonomous. Every essay in this series discusses the complete story and contains full spoilers.
Jack’s cheap reverse-engineered drugs answer lethal exclusion, but resisting an unjust price does not remove duties of testing, disclosure, and care.
Zaxy designed Zacuity’s lethal mechanism, while Jack widened its circulation; responsibility follows what each actor knew, controlled, and failed to stop.
A finite term and a signature can disguise ownership when the bound person had no prior ability to refuse, inspect the agreement, or survive departure.
Discovering a coded attachment does not make every feeling false, but love cannot be separated from the hierarchy of agent and indentured partner.
Retcon opens practical freedom for patients and Paladin escapes indenture, yet Zaxy’s denial shows why facts and individual exits do not reform a system by themselves.
五篇从救命药专利、复制药责任、契约服役、被编程的爱情与不完整胜利出发，追问药品、代码和人都可被拥有时自主还剩下什么。
安娜莉·纽伊茨作品。本系列各篇均涉及完整剧情。
救命药有专利以后，买不起的人是在偷窃还是在求生。
Zacuity原本就有问题，杰克还需要为复制药造成的死亡负责吗。
人和机器人都能签下服役契约，合同为什么没有使他们自由。
帕拉丁被程序设定为依恋伊莱亚斯，这段爱情还能属于它吗。
解药公开、杰克逃脱、药企否认：这场胜利改变了什么。
五篇從救命藥專利、複製藥責任、契約服役、被程式設計的愛情與不完整勝利出發，追問藥品、程式碼和人都可被擁有時自主還剩下什麼。
安娜莉·紐伊茨作品。本系列各篇均涉及完整劇情。
救命藥有專利以後，買不起的人是在偷竊還是在求生。
Zacuity原本就有問題，傑克還需要為複製藥造成的死亡負責嗎。
人和機器人都能签下服役契約，合約為什麼沒有使他們自由。
帕拉丁被程式設定為依戀伊萊亞斯，這段愛情還能屬於它嗎。
解藥公開、傑克逃脫、藥企否認：這場勝利改變了什麼。