Avatars Inc

11/06/2020

From the Memory Archives (2076): “Compton, a cultural icon, now the grave of one of the greatest sources of American history and culture. I’d like to have this captured for generations in its closest to pure state. Specifically, for an activist that decided to stay.” -by Bryce Banks

10/06/2020

From the Memory Archives (2076): “He would miss this when he returned. His visits to his childhood home gave him hope, a glittering beacon of the past where the birds sang and the air was still fresh, where his skin and everyone else’s was soft and warm and real.” -by Rhianna Jones

09/06/2020

After an exhaustive search, we have located the missing Memory and uploaded it to our Archives. Thanks to Anya Ow for locating this story about a Peranakan ship captain sailing around the world looking for someone to inherit her recipes, who finds the partly-functional remains of an underwater exploration avatar.

17/04/2020

Your memory could last a lifetime. Help us find the missing avatar memory by May 8th and we’ll upload the winning short story to our Archives, appearing alongside James S. A. Corey, Ken Liu, Author, Aliette de Bodard, Charles Yu, Julianna Baggott Official Fan Page, and more. https://avatars.inc/

Archive of the memories from Avatar Inc's most valuable avatar models

10/04/2020

06/04/2020

From the Memory Archives (2079): “Studies showed that maintaining communications with home was key to not losing your mind when you were on a seven month journey from everything you’d ever known.” -by Madeline Ashby

05/04/2020

From the Memory Archives (2074): “Humanity is just amazing. But when did I begin to think of it as if I were not a part of it? Am I spending too much time projected into artificial bodies?” -by Julie Nováková

03/04/2020

From the Memory Archives (2071): “And the reason I wasn’t physically here — the reason I was piloting the avatar — was because avatars were expendable, and I was not.” -by Aliette de Bodard .

02/04/2020

From the Memory Archives (2069): “The mother grabs onto the handle on the avatar’s back and off we go, gliding through the stadium into the stairwell and then down cascades of water, through hallways and locker rooms and rooms where Xs and Os were once drawn up for game day.” -by Charles Yu

01/04/2020

From the Memory Archives (2068): “Cloaked within the phoenix hologram, she spirals upward, trailing a rainbow of fire that transforms into butterflies that flutter and fill the stands.” - by Dr. Harry Kloor

01/04/2020

From the Memory Archives (2066): “Falling was a strange sensation when divorced from the familiar accompanying feelings of the body.” - K Chess

30/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2065): “She activated the avatar and found herself hip deep in a field of hay, the sky full of stars, the wind running through the trees at the boundaries.” - by Jeffrey Ford

29/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2064): “I am the first autonomous AI to come down here from the world above.” - by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

29/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2061): “I leap across the landscape like a god, like a giant with seven-league boots, and the silt rises in clouds.” - by JY Yang

28/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2059): “I knew in my mind I was in the Cradle, but after fifteen minutes I felt disembodied. Twenty minutes and the unit and I were one. The calibration was exquisite because I could feel a breeze on my face.” - by Tade Thompson

26/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2058): “...the patients here need the Amazing Ralphie a lot more than anyone else does, and he needs them just as much. He’s programmed to learn, after all, and they taught him everything he knows.” - by Pat Cadigan

25/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2055): “When Murray used the avatar unit to blend in and study the snow leopards, he was able to sense what the avatar unit sensed: the sights, the smells, tastes of being a snow leopard.” -by Tom Sweterlitsch

24/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2054): “There was nothing in the procedure manuals for this. We weren’t trained as emergency first-responders. But I was there.” - by Ken Liu

23/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2052): “By the time of our deployment, the millipedes has grown small webbed claws. They are an endangered species that’s gone rogue.” - by Julianna Baggott

22/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2048): “What he really wanted was to walk up and down in the world like a normal human being, something he hadn’t been able to do since the last attempt to regrow his lower spinal nerves had failed.” - by Paul McAuley

21/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2047): “These are real people built from meat and fear. If you’re physically here, you can’t be called a happy tourist.” - by Robert Reed

20/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2044): “The state that has declared you stateless cannot arrest you in an artificial body. Deportation and detention camps need warm flesh.” - by Indrapramit Das

19/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2042): “I decide to freeze. Electromagnetic noise has to be kept in utter minimum during the task, especially when other life forms are in close contact.” - by Johanna Sinisalo

18/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2041): “Thieves. Call it what it is, we are nothing but thieves. But our cause is just, I swear to God. We steal from the past that we may gift to the future.” - by Adrian Tchaikovsky

17/03/2020

17/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2040): “This was just a haunted house, I reminded myself. Safe place to explore your worst fears. Self-actualization and growth. Sure.” - by Nino Cipri

16/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2039): “It’s no use pretending the world hasn’t changed. It changes all the time. Every choice we make, every person we meet, has the potential to transform our lives.” - by Kelly Robson

15/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2037): “We do that when we’re powerless to fix things, because it is the power we do have. When there’s nothing else to offer, we give our presence.” - by James S. A. Corey

14/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2033): “I was here for the spectacle: the last enclave of its kind, directly in the projected path of the biggest hurricane ever recorded.” - by Sarah Pinsker

13/03/2020

From the Memory Archives (2030): “You pressed a button in Kyoto, and you wake up in my living room?” - by SL Huang