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An idea that was running around in my head quite a bit a couple years ago was a story in which the consciousness of a famous starship admiral was captured digitally before he died, and this consciousness ends up being "switched on" and put in control of a humanoid robot, who then tries to figure out where he is and who put him there.

He winds up realizing that he is on a damaged, abandoned ship that has veered into a populated planet's orbit - and the ship's orbit is now about to decay entirely.

He quickly begins work to generate some amount of directional thrust to save the planet and himself - the ship's fuel source is destructive on a continental scale - but while doing this he realizes that he only has minutes to go before the ship is lost, yet he experiences these minutes as days, weeks, his advanced machinery sluggishly moving hundreds of times faster than any human, but still feeling like molasses compared to the rate at which he experiences time and can run models and calculations.

The end result of the story is that he discovers that he (or rather, a copy of his consciousness) is an Insurance module that comes standard with every class-6 or above space vessel, and he is switched on any time the vessel goes out of control and could potentially result in loss of life. He is essentially a trolley-problem solver on behalf of desk workers looking to lower liability and he ceases to exist when there is no conundrum to solve. The objective results of the new insurance module is millions of near-disasters averted, as if by a miracle, and many others being diverted in ingenious ways to lower the cost in human lives. There are thousands of these modules and they are activated hundreds of times every year.

This would cover questions of whether this type of self-imposed moral obligation, taken advantage of, constituted slavery. When he manages to activate an earlier model that he discovers among flotsam an jetsam in the cargo hold he converses with himself and can see that no version of himself could ever escape to find peace. He begins to curse his inability to put his own interests over others, knowing he was obviously picked because he would by nature never leave a sinking ship, and he begins to see that sinking with the ship is his eternal fate. He can do nothing else.
With a second copy of his own mind to console him, he completes the repair and watches his disintegrating ship narrowly make it into water just off-shore. They are both obliterated.

Main character works at robot factory, but becomes displaced due to ever increasing automation. His daughter dies after being born and his wife leaves him.
So he joins the military to go fight humanoid reptiles on other planets because, he has no other options, because there is nowhere to work anymore and he does not want to sit idly for otherwise, he would kill himself because he has nothing left
As a result of all of this, he has lost a lot of his humanity and becomes more like what he hates, robots

WOT IF YOUR BRAIN WAS A COMPUTAH

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my novel describes a typical litposter's life over the 40 year span in their mother's basement. It's about finding meaning in a worthless life of tenders and hentai.

It's like how shitty life is n'stuff but through a metaphor in which it all happens in space

Adulthood's End, The Venusian Chronicles, Spaceship Marines, A Wooden Cucumber, The Butler's Story, Sky Zeus, The Girl in the Medium Hotel.

i'm a sucker for anything where the twist at the end is "it took place on earth all along!"

robots realize that there are things they are incapable of doing so they start creating smarter and smarter humans until the humans become self aware and destroy them