Showing results for "Me" in Hard Science Fiction

In these edgy, unexpected tales, a body-hopping mercenary avenges his pet elephant, and an orphan falls in love with a sentient starship. Fighters ally to power a reality-bending engine, and a swamp-dwelling introvert tries to save the world - from her plague-casting former wife.

In a space-faring future, janitorial engineer Casey Cassandra spends her days fixing robots on an ambassador’s spaceship. But when one of her robotic cleaning cubes happens to be in the wrong place at the right time, Casey overhears an ominous threat. Someone is plotting to kill the ambassador, and that someone is a traitor within their own fleet. Armed only with a hefty cleaning cube (named Charles) and her eccentric engineering knowledge, Casey must go against all fleet standards. She’ll have to risk her life to warn her boss that he’s in imminent danger—from his own people.

Doug Dawkins lives to debunk conspiracy theories, especially crackpot claims of aliens. So when his dead dad FaceTimes him (giving him crazy money and orders to cover up the truth of extraterrestrial existence), Doug is sure this is a hacker's scam and reports it to the NSA. Then government security servers melt down. NSA agents become convinced Doug and his wife are dangerous spies. But Doug is sure he'd never kill anyone or believe aliens exist. Could he be half right?

How technological development and artificial intelligence can affect our human relationships. Can machines replace human connections?