T.I.M.

Moving to the countryside to share quality time together, ABI and PAUL find themselves sharing their state-of-the-art smart home with a Technologically Integrated Manservant. T.I.M., a humanoid A.I., is a gift from Abi's boss at Integrate Robotics as she starts her job as head of the prosthetics department. Not only can T.I.M. cook and clean, he runs a perfect bath, administers heavenly foot massages, and offers impeccable compliments or immaculate words of comfort--all skills that make Paul's hackles rise as he begins to suspect that T.I.M. is perhaps //too// focused on attending to Abi's every need. Is it paranoia on Paul's part as he struggles to find work and to regain Abi's trust following a past infidelity? Or is T.I.M. really becoming obsessed with Abi, using his vast intelligence--not to mention his access to all of the couple's devices--to usurp Paul's place in the home? And if it is the latter, just how far is T.I.M. willing to go?

• science fiction