Author : Gray Blix Leaning across the table, "Either you start talking, or I start dismantling you." "Excuse me, Detective Gibbon, but aren't you supposed to read me my rights?" "You're a robot. You have no rights." "May I please call an attorney now?" "You're a robot. You don't ...

Author : Emily Stupar The rain swirled over tiles and across rooftops before spreading like drapes down the sides of each decrepit building. Lights from the richly populated northern quarter dyed the clouds a deep purple and orange, giving the two fugitives in the west just enough ...

Author : Rick Tobin Bright yellow sulfur combined with duller golden salts into a drifting, wispy fog around the genetically modified mules. Their packs glistened with the settling, bitter powders. Additional chartreuse dusts escaped from the gills on their fetlocks as they converted ...

Author : Michael Jagunic Brick stands motionless as mechanical arms snap the exosuit around him: torso first, then limbs, weapons, and finally helmet. “It’s like God creating life, you know?” he says. “You start with a soul, slap a body around it, and then send it shrieking into the ...

Author : Willis Weatherford Cold concrete, suppressed breathing, hands pressed flat to the grey rooftop. Winds whistled by his high-altitude haunt. The clatter of metal caterpillar tracks filtered up seventy stories to tingle in his straining ears, but Diemer was listening for ...