Cascade Failure

From Post-Self
Cascade Failure
Joel Kreissman
Format Short story
Character Gregory
Year 2302
Canonicity Canon
Appears in Clade — A Post-Self Anthology
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"Cascade Failure" follows Gregory as he tries to recreate entire ecosystems from phys-side. Running into issues with programming behaviors into the construct animals, he takes a break to go attend a gallery exhibition by Dear of the Ode clade. The next day, he finds several critters he did not create populating the ecology sims such as tics and opossums. On trying to sweet the sims to start over, he discovers that they are all instances — his own instances. Apparently, the exhibition inspired him to just...be bugs.

Canon works
Books The Post-Self Cycle Qoheleth and "Gallery Exhibition: A Love Story" • ToledotNevi'imMitzvot and "Selected Letters"
Stories of Restoration MarshIdumeaKaddishApril May Yet Come
Motes PlayedUnintended Tendencies
Short stories In Clade Sufficiently AdvancedGenre CladeAprès un rêveSupport Group for Anomalies in ForkingCowboyTrue Love Lies Within and WithoutThe Big OShe Who Haunts the StormEarthboundCascade Failure
In Marsh' Game NightHome From the GameThe Party at the End of the WorldA Well-Trained EyeToward EternityPropheciesJournal of Diago PereiraMillwrightSentences
AssignmentCoffee LeakDreams for BreakfastFever DreamsFor Old Times NewHuesMeeting of OneOpportunity Paralysis The PartyTo — in the days after her deathReadingRegret of PotentialScanShared MomentWrigglings Toward