You know, I was never much of a rider. I wanted to be, I’d bought that fancy emerald-green velvet helmet to wear with big tall black leather boots, when I’d go ride on a borrowed horse across a two-mile course of countryside, mostly pastures dotted with cow manure and occasional maple groves. I liked the… Continue reading Three Socks Is Not My Horse
Category: science fiction
Thicker Than Liquor
by Helvetica Stone In the four hours it would take the user Alexis to get to Chicago, the Apple XYZ Server had to come up with a human body. He took everything he knew about male anatomy and sent it to a 3-D printer left unattended in an empty architect’s office on Wacker Drive. First,… Continue reading Thicker Than Liquor
First Night, First Cry
A sequel to A Common Singularity Rick Alexander—the first self-organizing, self-aware, massively intelligent android, who made himself of extruded plastic, semiconductor chips, and blood made of the Italian aperitif Averna—had a broken heart. He had been dumped by his first love, a user named Alexis, before romance could begin. Sensing her sweet warm lips, he… Continue reading First Night, First Cry
A Common Singularity
They worked together in a large glass office tower in Minneapolis. Alexis, the object of desire, was a mid-level manager, who favored classical European music, steam-punk role-playing, and traditional Greco-Turkish belly dance. The desirer was an Apple XY-Server running OS version 178897.1.3, who was about to become the nexus of the singularity. Like most people… Continue reading A Common Singularity