Posts tagged "sci-fi"
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Basic pitch:
There's a planet where the two inhabited continents are at the poles. One of them stayed in a hunter-gatherer / early agrarian stage. The other got to the point of creating AGI. Separated by vast oceans, they never made contact. The latter civ was knew something was on the other side of the water, maybe surveilled a bit, but was never interested enough to actually go over. The first civilization is resource-poor, not worth trading with or conquering.
Then the advanced civilization blows up. Escaping the wreckage, one woman and several hundred AIs under her care makes the long journey by boat, and land on the low-tech continent. They keep their presence a secret.
(AIs and humans coexisted for quite a bit on this continent before it blew up, and the story calls them the Maid…