The Betrayal

The soft electric hum of generators and the continual light suck of air filters didn’t register in the hearing of … More

Food for Thought

“Lights out!” said Dad, “The AI is about to start feeding.” It was always the same: just when I was … More

A pool of water from the lashing rain grew outside the long, shallow factory window, a mirror on the concrete. … More

Graveyards of idiots I reached a moment of pure honesty on the morning of the eve of my fifty-fifth birthday. … More

Watching your world degrade is an experience unlike any other. It’s like watching your bed begin to burn while you … More

I saw myself standing on the other side of the reinforced glass door to my house as I turned into … More

I had never been to False World before. The interstellar cruise on Horizon Finder had made it part of the … More

The memory was a fixed one. Some memories are like sediment, debris in the tidal flow of the mind, others … More

For a robot, it was enormous, a huge silver barrel of a body the size of a bus, swaying side … More

I loved my holidays. They were the only times I cared about, to be brutally honest. They were also the … More

“What is the value you have?” A simple, short question. The start question for every potential employer. Answering was simple. … More

Absolute silence combined with absolute darkness can drive you mad. Your brain begins to fill in the void with its … More

I didn’t realise at first. Everybody was dead. Everybody. I was on the beach, the sun was out, the wind … More

The suburban matrix was still and quiet and not in the usual way. There were no young mothers pushing prams … More

I witnessed the curling black mushroom cloud for the briefest of moments, it reached over the city on fire like … More

“What is it worth to you, really?” That was his twisting question. Alasha looked the trade agent in the eye … More

Genemagix, the word was nonsense, like most brands and company names, and yet, the investment-burgeoning startups of Silicon Valley hinged … More

It was disturbing to take in the endless, neat rows of empty white seats in the preparation space. There had … More

I awoke sharply from a feverish dream, where I was standing with statuesque stillness and completely naked at a conference … More

“You can not travel back in time. It’s impossible and why would you want to? But time travel is possible, … More