Okay, Glory is the first piece of what could be considered "hard" SF by Elizabeth Bear that I have read. Except it's almost not speculative, seems just about a year or two in the future. An eccentric tech billionaire who likes to be left alone has constructed an IOT Fortress of Solitude and turned control over to a house AI called Glory. It takes good care of him and he's very fond of it. Except it gets hacked--the AI gets convinced that the outside world has had the Zombie Apocalypse--and locks him in. Who'd 'a thunk it?
We're getting to the point where it's easy to believe that anyone who turns that much of their life over to IOT devices is asking for trouble. Might have been more interesting if his Smart House was air-gapped and they still found a way to hack it.
In any case it's a good story, and nice that it found its way into a free online source from the print collection (Twelve Tomorrows) that it was in.
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