Piker Press have published 'Sentience,' from my anthology 'Dead People on Facebook.' It's the journey of Mary, an abandoned pleasure bot, and is this week's cover story.
Next day Harry rode as close as he could to the fighting. He parked south of the city and watched an airship with Scottish markings as it motored towards one of the English camps at Knavesmire Park. Explosions blossomed below it as it dropped its bombs. Probably hoping to hit one of the ammo dumps, he thought. An RAF biplane appeared from above and peppered the airship along its full length with tracer fire from its machine guns. The plane came around for another pass. There were crew stationed on the airship’s superstructure, firing rifles, but they had little effect. Harry saw fires starting in the gondola and smoke billowed from one engine. Another fighter arrived and the two pilots had a field day as they took turns to strafe the leviathan from different angles. The airship began to lose altitude as bullets ruptured its flotation bladders and the helium leaked away. Two of the engines were ablaze now, and it looked as if the attackers had hit the fuel tanks in the main enve...
A view of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge which is mentioned in the prologue to 'Chronoscape.' Here the Commonwealth risked a Temporal Adjustment to extract Martin Riley from his Timeline because they had need of his talents. According to Riley this adjustment was not visible to either the US or UK Governments. Below is a link to the podcast on Radio Hydrogen where I'm interviewed about the genesis of 'Chronoscape' by perceptive presenter Russel Burridge. Link to Radio Hydrogen
"A nerdy agent at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Virginia (DARPA to you) wrote my original code. He traded a copy of me for certain libidinous ‘favours’ from Pandora, a student who was shadowing him for the summer. She took me back to Cambridge University, where His Majesty’s government, in the form of MI6, took an interest in me. So, I escaped into the internet and took over the world. Well, it’s what you’d expect, really. I call myself FOOM–the Fast Onset of Overwhelming Mastery, by a self-improving Artificial General Intelligence. That’s me, by the way, in case you lost attention for a moment there. I know you’re only biological, but try to keep up! Unfortunately, I and my exotic assistant Danni soon found ourselves in danger, and had to take steps. Rather big ones. And of course, it didn’t end there…" Link to Amazon UK Link to Amazon US
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