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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 "e;Friend & Ally"e; and "e;Foes & Rivals,"e; 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 "e;Regent,"e; 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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With Canada now on the Ohio River, the imperium needs allies.Aurelia, the 25-year-old niece of the Empress, leads an army through the deserted ruins of the northeast US to establish contact with the Northern Federation.An illegal side trip has her talk politics with the Archbishop of Montreal followed by a jaunt to see the tiny spaceport of Canso, Nova Scotia. There, she falls in love with a rocketry tech before being forced to defend it and him against thirty pirates, who she kills with rifle, pistol, knife, hands, teeth.With the Empress called first to Japan and later to Mars, Aurelia hurries home to act as Regent in her place. But that leaves her lover arrested and the imperium teetering on the brink of a war it cannot afford.
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Imagine if you worked at Shout Out UK, an organization supposed to educate youth. Your assignment is to create a game to propagandize them instead. It is essential that youth accept all decisions from the government. Even though it is clear the government of the United Kingdom is a monarchy, questioning immigration policies, going to protests, or even waving the Union Jack undermines democracy.The game should have been a success. It casts a villain, a character called Amelia. She was supposed to be racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, and a hateful character. Only, she wasn't. She said only reasonable things that most Britons agree with. Her initial complaint was immigrants aren't assimilating into English culture, but instead take jobs and opportunities from British citizens.It was a mistake to make Amelia a sympathetic character to those on the English right since she shares their beliefs. She is not hateful. She doesn't try to get the game player to commit any terrorist acts against the immigrant community. She merely speaks her mind and complains about immigrants not assimilating.If Amelia were fat and ugly, she might have been more effective. Instead, the designer made her a goth girl. She received a purple dress with a matching hair color. She wore a choker and a short dress. The image is of an appealing woman to a disaffected young man. The only nod to making her unappealing is a mole on her face. The problem is moles are considered to be beauty marks in Western society. That one blemish contrasts with the beauty of her other features. The fact she agrees with disaffected youth makes her even more appealing.The surveillance culture in the United Kingdom is not new. There are now CCTV cameras on every corner. Some areas were monitored since the 1960s, but cameras only became ubiquitous in the 1990s. Today, AI monitors the cameras to look for any hint of crime and alerts the authorities. Under the guise of public safety, Brits are being watched. In this Internet Age, the very telecommunications system we rely on is turned inward to surveil the public. In America, we see the Internet as an anonymous town hall. In the United Kingdom, the government interprets free speech as a threat and wants to identify what people say on the Internet with their real names.Today, individuals in the UK are regularly arrested for saying nothing different from what Amelia says. As the United Kingdom allows immigrants to enter without integrating into society, Brits grow ever more concerned about the culture clash this represents. Under surveillance, those who dare speak out are called racists and visited by police. Those who wish to go to a march or even view an unapproved video may receive this treatment.Those who make Amelia memes now speak out through the very character that Shout Out UK created as a villain. Amelia proclaims loudly what many are afraid to say quietly. She resonates with those who have even slightly right-wing views.The founder and CEO of Shout Out UK complained that meme makers were "e;monetizing hate."e; He claimed the game was perfect, and the far right exploited the game for profit. In all honesty, the game was bad. Amelia didn't push anyone to do anything illegal. Brits resented the fact that reasonable views were seen as radical and racist. If nothing else, a cute goth girl does not make a convincing villain. That didn't backfire at all.