SneakerWave SF
These six science fiction tales of forgotten hopes and last chances travel from the recent past and today’s dystopian realities into a distant future, where people live forever, and democracy is so perfect no one bothers to vote.
In a world where everyone lives forever and no one has voted for thousands of years, an old woman registers to vote, giving her the power to decide the next election.
Warning: Contains no practical advice on improving American elections.
A production crew teleports 13 billion light years across the universe into the slums of New York City to record a reality show about the robots that have taken over the planet.
Warning: Contains gratuitous scenes of planned obsolescence, tenement housing and other robotic atrocities.
A 15-year-old girl, the first in her town to graduate from kindergarten, takes a road trip to visit the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles and the AI’s that have covered every inch of America with freeways.
Warning: Contains upsetting descriptions of empty vending machines and delinquent road crews.
An intelligent bio-engineered 30-foot-long slug tries to help her pet human escape from the toxic waste dump that once provided them with all the recycled goods they could ever want.
Warning: Includes scenes of graphic gastropod sex and slug slime.
An elderly grade school librarian thinks about her father’s favorite proverb—“the chicken hawks prayer does not get the chicken”—as she tries to help two unpopular kids. They have decided to build a small defenseless bird instead one of the heavily armed action robots all the other kids are creating for the school’s “Robot Day.”
Warning provides no data or logical arguments that might support people who are determined to cut library funding, ban printed books and sell lots of programmatic ads.
A pair of con artists working as tour guides smuggle a group of demons to heaven, where their plans to swindle the poor devils run afoul with God and her trusted enforcer, Satan who wants a bigger cut of the action.
Warning: Contains lengthy scenes of cows chewing cud, tractor driving, identity theft and other forms of eternal bliss that pass for entertainment in the bucolic heavens of rural America.
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