"The gods will not be chained": A short story by Ken Liu

"The gods will not be chained": A short story by Ken Liu

Maddie hated the moment when she came home from school and woke her computer. There was a time when she had loved the bulky old laptop whose keys had been worn down over the years until what was left of the lettering appeared like glyphs, a hand-me-down from her father that she had kept going with careful upgrades: it kept her in touch with faraway friends, allowed her to see that the world was much bigger and wider than the narrow confines of h…