The Shattered Man
Four cutting edge science fiction short stories from the Age of Transcendence Saga
Fury of the Sun Gods - A military family is ripped apart by their choices and allegiances as China explodes in civil war. After Direct Democracy swept away the old Communist regime in a Jasmine Revolution seventy years earlier, China became the light of the world, everything America was in the 20th century. But when a depression brings the Communists storming back, fathers battle sons for the future of the county, with terrifying new weapons.
When Once We Dreamed - When the Sol Sys economy collapses, Leptic surgery seems to offer the unemployed new hope. The procedure eliminates the need for sleep and companies are hungry to hire people they can work all night. At first a young man relishes the extra time the miracle surgery brings, but his life quickly becomes a nightmare as his new job sets him on a collision course with displaced workers who hate and fear him.
The Illustrated Scriptures When a visionary prophet records his whole life on his internal nanonets, his memories becomes the VR bible for a new religion that threatens to sweep away the ancient religions of ink and wood pulp. Yet when a repressive government kills the prophet, a rag tag group of his posthuman followers mount a daring raid on a highly secure police facility to capture his final memories and complete their scriptures.
In the Cracks of the Machine - The robot revolution is here, but it's not what we expected. Instead of friendly humanoid robots doing our dirty work for us, big corporations use cheap drones to sweep aside whole labor forces. Now one displaced worker sets out for revenge against the CEO of the world's biggest robotics manufacturer, but when he gets there the man is nothing like what he expected.
