China Mountain Zhang (Building recognises faces)

Brief description

When San-xiang gets kicked out from her parents place, she stays in Zhang`s apartment where you enter by being recognized by the building. It does not say facial recognition, but I am assuming it. The other female character Angel is easily granted access into several places, because buildings "likes" her, as she claims.

Pull Quotes

The Building system says someone`s at the outside door, I check the console and there she tands with a slouch bag over her shoulder. Until I see the bag it doesn`t occur to me that she might want to stay the night. Hell, doesn`t she have friends? I let her in, tell the builiding to recognize her and let her in whenever she comes, and leave the door off the latch. I ride the subway home to Brooklyn. It`s not far from the subway to my building, but I`m glad to get to the door. Safe in the entry, safer in the elevator. I`ve been living here for two years, and the building knows me. I have an affinity for machines, call me superstitious but I think it comes of spending some of my waking hours as a kind of cyborg. I think my building likes me.

Work that the situation appears in

Title Publication Type Year Creator
China Mountain Zhang Narrative, Novel Maureen F. McHugh
Machine P.O.V
Not machine P.O.V.

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