
Magazine. Out of print. The story is also in Ergosphere: Astounding New Tales From M-Brane SF.
Includes Thea Hutcheson's "Becoming Connie": When Captain Tilley dies in a routine accident, his e-Thinker, Conyers, ferries the captain's estranged nephew Cale back to the family's ruined asteroid habitat to settle the estate — and straight into a run-in with pirates. But a quantum storm on the return trip left Conyers changed: sorting through unfamiliar sensations it can't quite classify, grieving a man it wasn't built to grieve, and quietly deciding what kind of captain, if any, deserves what it's becoming.
