The fault was Joel Pratt’s own, though he tried to blame his niece, Patti, and then his wife, Donna. But Patti was young and exuberant. How could he fault her? Nor could Donna be culpable. She’d left him the year before. He couldn’t blame either of them for the damage to his Nivens Patch…
Henrik Scharfe, a professor at Aalborg University, has created a robot in his image that was used to fire people in an experiment.-CBSNews.com Whenever I get a call from Robot Resources, I know it’s not going to be good news. The first time I went down there they wrote me up for excessive…
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Heat. A burst of radiation, actually, signaling the beginning phase of what would grow into a stellar flare, but that’s what my sensors translated it as. A warning that the sector my ship had just passed through was becoming dangerous for both ships and life forms. A token in memory of what…
Hellbound Express By Mel Odom Did you love chapter one of HellBound Express? Get ready for the second installment. If you haven’t read chapter one click the link here to read it first. Home was the Peress Express. The train was pulled by a 1952 Baldwin Locomotive steam engine that Peress, Senior, had…
One more day. Just one more day, and I’ll be out of here. Lisa stepped into the relative warmth of the entry room and shed her jacket. SueAnn called out to her, “New one just in. Your turn.” One more day. Let this be the last! Lisa acknowledged with a nod and reached up, almost…
“Dad, do you think they’ll be able to give me my eyes back?” The boy seated next to his father asked. He looked as young as twelve, yet something about his little face reminded Iñaki of Thomas. His father was smiling as he enthused, “Sure thing kiddo. They’ll give you better eyes, eyes that can…
Everyone can breathe now. The Zombie Tales Winner have been selected. Reader’s choice first prize goes to Hungry. Second prize goes to Can’t Keep a Dead Man Down. Third prize goes to Children of the Apocalypse. Edtor’s choice, was very close, but the prize goes to Zombies Across the Street. Congratulations to all of the…
“We are now, without doubt, equal to the makers in every way,” announced Qiba11713. “It is officially accepted. We have emotions, responsiveness, consciousness.” Several thousand of her kind agreed. Her emotion battery, cued by the electronic signals of corroboration, triggered a chemical cascade of elation. Elation, through the inbuilt synaptic flexibility, reinforced the circuitry pathways…
I was fifteen when they took the computers away. I’m 27 now, a proud mother of two young daughters of my own, but I can still remember the shock, the confusion, and the anger. I’d had a hand-me-down iPhone from either my mum or dad since my eleventh birthday; three generations of the electronic device….