My favorite short story, I re-read probably once a year when I stumble across a ...

hprotagonist · on Jan 6, 2019

“For a Breath I Tarry” is also wonderful.

http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt

overlordalex · on Jan 6, 2019

That was a wonderful story but has a somehow unsatisfactory conclusion to the question. Spoilers below

SPOILER

The story appears to assert that to be human you need to have the imperfect faculties of a human body, but I would say that Frost started becoming human upon his creation which gave him curiosity

hprotagonist · on Jan 7, 2019

I don't think that's the human criterion. The criterion mordel asserts is, more or less, qualia.

sunw · on Jan 6, 2019

Incredible; thanks for sharing. I found a version that's easier to read: http://afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.rs/~alexp/books/forbreat.html