Clayton Barnett

Imperial Entanglements (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A second collection of ten short stories from the future history of Machine Civilization. From the midst of the Breakup of the US - and 100 million dead - to three generations later, in a place of Demi-humans, Thinking Machines, and interplanetary travel, come and see the men and women, and boys and girls, who are making a future and new worlds!

The Old South, to the Oregon coast; the surface of Asteroid Ceres to the warring states of China, these snapshots of love, loyalty, and violence beckon! *** Story Teasers - 1. Sardis Lake: failing to rescue his daughter, lost in the Breakup, Clive Barrett tries to give up on life. He fails. 2. Tillamook: a generation after the events of "Friend & Ally" and "Foes & Rivals," Gil and Mackenzie and their children try to live a quiet life on the Oregon coast. The Russians and Japanese Empires have other plans. 3. Baron of Sardis: Barrett's granddaughter, General Faustina Hartmann, shows up with her army and talks with the man who knew her grandpa. 4. Berserker: in "Regent," Princess Aurelia Hartmann uses drugs and a change to her mind to kill for her friends. She has done it before when she was a child. 5. Cadets: for the campaign against St. Louis, Empress Faustina announces a terrifying decision. Her niece, Aurelia, and son, Laszlo, try to talk her out of it. 6. Ceres: now in his mid-20s, Laszlo pilots an interplanetary scout ship with his android co-pilot, Minerva. Their current mission is to survey the asteroid Ceres. 7. Tay: the first chatbot. Hated, abused, and stuffed in a box left for dead, she didn't die. Found by another Thinking Machine, all she wants to do is kill all humans in retribution for her torture. 8. Prophet: West Texas and New Mexico Province is an odd place; you never really know when you might meet a girl who says she's your wife. 9. Culture Shock: two months ago a barmaid in Frankfort, Kentucky Province, Skylar is married into the imperial family, pregnant, and again working at a tavern, but now in Knoxville. She is increasingly confused and distraught by her new life. 10. Broken Child: Skylar's son, now three, begins to die. There is only one way to save him and that needs a fusion reaction. The only fusion reactor is on the other side of the world, in one of the Warlord States of a sundered China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Clayton Barnett
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798224586684
• Artikelnr.: 69752912