The Year in Review (so far) • 30 June 2024

It’s the last day of June and the middle day of the year, and so it seems a good day for reflection.In fact, it seems such a good day for reflection, I doubt I’ll get this column finished in time to post it today. [~n.b. I didn’t] Fortunately, this being a Leap Year, I have some slight squish room, as the actual 183rd day of 2024 is July 1st. In June of 2025, I promise to...

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The Odin Chronicles • Episode 39: “The Church of a Million Gods” • by Jason P. Burnham

 …Previously, in The Odin Chronicles… The silent betrayal in the downturn of his fiancée Shelley’s lips and the hunch of her shoulders haunted Father Luigi as he walked the dirt path to the church. He shivered as the bitterly cold wind that characterized the sometimes-hostile weather on Odin III whipped at his Roman collar. He and Shelley had had their fair share of...

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“Welcome to the Death Machine Factory Tour” • by Ray Daley

Greetings! I am Human-Robot Prototype Number Two. Today I will be your guide—Yes, the gentleman at the back with his hand raised. You had a question, sir?The frantic banging from that metal storage cabinet? Pay it no mind, sir. No, the models in our Death Machine product line certainly are not designed to rise up and imprison their human analogues. The very idea is laughable....

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