Geppetto's heart can only break so many times. After his biological child dies, he secretly builds a robot in his likeness--despite the laws against doing so--only for Pinocchio to leave him, believing he is a real boy. When a mysterious woman comes to Geppetto with a request to build her a daughter, she knows too much about Geppetto's secrets--and has some of her own. “The Pinocchio Complex,” is a 2000 word retelling of Pinocchio as a science fiction story with robots on Mars. The short story was previously sold in 2012 to Cosmos.
Geppetto's heart can only break so many times. After his biological child dies, he secretly builds a robot in his likeness--despite the laws against doing so--only for Pinocchio to leave him, believing he is a real boy. When a mysterious woman comes to Geppetto with a request to build her a daughter, she knows too much about Geppetto's secrets--and has some of her own. “The Pinocchio Complex,” is a 2000 word retelling of Pinocchio as a science fiction story with robots on Mars. The short story was previously sold in 2012 to Cosmos.
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