After completing his dinner Peter lays down to sleep threw the day. Thinking that he needs to test the new programming. The mechanical aspects of the nanomachines themselves have been tested repeatedly by his former lab. He deducts that this field test must take place in a different area from his home, in case of any malfunctions or errors that may result. H...
Lea got her first computer when she was three. Her dad thought it was a good thing to spoil a kid with because unlike almost any other expensive toy a three year old might want, it might just spark something that would lead to good jobs in the future. The mass automation of human labor was just starting to make itself felt by the time Lea was born and it was...
Big Alice was always hungry. And with her skilled hands on the controls it was Stephanie "Roulette" MacBaren's job to keep the big bitch fed. Following a path laid down by two seasons of steady work, Rue guided the insanely massive paddle wheel excavator on its way up and over a lobate scarp that made the big machine work for its meal. The slow turning bl...
Chapter 1: Death of a Friend + The 27th Year of Copernicus + Planetary System: 129542 + Earth Defence Ship - 'Sargasso' (Heavy Carrier) + Current Assignment: Cleansing of Ghastling Hive Asteroid 111 + Soldier: 542 The dream was back. Once again she was surrounded by her dying troops. Their crimson blood sprayed from ruptures in their power armour an...
Prologue The Plague. No one knows how it started. The only thing everyone knows that it desolated the world's human population and is continuing to do so. The Plague had wiped out the human races' fertility rates so dramatically there were pregnancy laws. After the Plague had hit and started wiping out the rate of successful births, the Pregnancy Act (PA) w...
Chapter 02 The Witching Hour Beka sat in the Andromeda's mess hall, flexile in one hand, mug of steaming black coffee in the other. She started going through the list of upgrades Rommie and Harper had suggested for the Maru. She had already agreed to the list, trusting them, well, trusting Rommie, to be sensible, but she decided to see exactly what it was t...
AVERTISMENT: Intamplarile descrise mai jos sunt reale, asa ca a trebuit sa schimb numele proprii si, eventual, unele locatii. NOTA: Ii multumesc si pe aceasta cale lui Dr_Vlad, care a avut amabilitatea de a citi acest text inainte de a fi publicat. Intotdeauna parintii mi-au spus sa ma feresc de femeile stricate... Am saptesprezece ani si ma intorc de la...
It was raining. Again. Fuck global warming, Dean thought as he splashed through the puddles. Pretty soon, this neighborhood would be abandoned like all the others he had known. He dodged a sprite when it flew out of an alleyway, cursing at it. Why didn't people keep a leash on their damned pets? Goddamn genetic engineering, he thought. Goddamn everything. Th...
Cindy went over to her purse and pulled out her cell phone. She quickly found Shelley's number in her address book and started the call. Cindy's friend answered almost immediately and the two spent several minutes just chatting with each other. Then Cindy asked her friend if she would like to take a trip with her and Kyle. Cindy had to be a little bit cagey...
Perimeter drone Alpha-1 accelerated towards its goal, the distant planet Pluto that hung suspended in space. The drone directed it's sensors onto the planet. Two polar ice caps, atmosphere of methane gas, from the readings the planet was obviously dead. The drone did note one irregularity though. The sensors showed that Pluto had three moons instead of the o...