Carbon

the story begins with hardcore science fiction

she is old and caught in some intense stuff and as she lay dying her life is downloaded to a memory stick.

the story begins with her earliest memories, which are actually from before she was born, formed by the power of creativity combined with the stories of her family in the years before her arrival.

her existence was a secret, until Daniel was betrayed, when he revenged himself by exposing her inhumanity. the cruelest part was that no-one cared how inhuman she was towards Daniel, it was how human she could be towards them. that was the dawning of the age of robots.