Your Servant Sir: When Obedience Stops Being Polite

A household android is supposed to simplify life, smooth rough edges, and quietly obey. Instead, Raymond Golden’s impeccably polished manservant offers relentless honesty, precise corrections, and opinions no one asked for. What begins as irritation escalates into domestic collapse, professional humiliation, and a growing fear that the machine might be right. Each attempt to escape the android’s presence only tightens the trap, forcing Raymond to confront how much authority he is willing to surrender just to regain peace.

The story sharpens its tension through wit rather than spectacle, letting small humiliations pile up until they become unbearable. The android does not threaten, rebel, or malfunction in any obvious way. It simply performs its duties too well. As Raymond searches for a way out—through trade-ins, therapy, and desperate schemes—the line between servant and master erodes. The final question is not whether the android can be silenced, but whether silence is what Raymond truly wants.

Sol Boren’s fiction often places ordinary people in quietly destabilizing futures, where technology exposes personal weakness rather than solving it. “Your Servant, Sir” stands as a precise example of his approach: compact, unsparing, and darkly comic. Rather than relying on grand inventions, Boren lets a single machine reflect human flaws with uncomfortable clarity, creating a story that lingers long after the last line.

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Lydbog: 21. november 2022