Retail Is Dying
David Lee Zweifler & Ronan Zweifler
| First published | May 2025 |
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| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Short Story |
This story follows an old man on a farewell tour of a vacant shopping mall accompanied by an AI companion modeled on his worst self. Despite the decline of the mall's retail offerings and his construct's discouragement, he finds that there is still something important worth acquiring there. [--author's website]
Co-authored by father and son.
(Reviewed in Tangent Online and SFRevu.)
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| May 2025 |
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May-June 2025 | Must Read Magazines | MAGAZINE | 54 |