Stupid Machine
It’s 2062, and self-driving cars are perfectly safe. So Araci Belo suspects Jordan Bishop’s fatal accident is murder. But who – or what – killed Jordan?
Jupyter Furentes works with appliances — rice cookers, ovens, whatever calls for help — and coaches them back to proper functioning. Now she’s being hounded by a refrigerator with a dangerous question.
Soteria Reizoko is Jordan Bishop’s refrigerator and just wants the orange juice it ordered. But the delivery car has gone missing. Soteria wants to find someone to help it out. One person doesn’t want to be found.
Belo doesn’t know Jupyter, Jupyter doesn’t know about the murder, the refrigerator knows who killed Jordan, but only cares about orange juice.
Can a refrigerator solve a murder before the murderer fixes the refrigerator?
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Phantom Sense and Other Stories
Sgt. Kip McCorbin must choose a military sixth-sense or the love of his family.
Courtney Brandt lies frozen on a glacier, but warm to the touch. Her killer is already claiming another victim.
Valerie Akwasi stumbles into the deadly side of a vineyard.
Michael Graves could be your best friend or your worst enemy. Too bad you’re just an experiment.
Phantom Sense and other stories is a collection of science fiction stories from the pages of Analog magazine by the award-winning team of Richard A. Lovett and Mark Niemann-Ross. Includes NetPuppets (the 2006 Analytical Laboratory Award winning novelette), Phantom Sense (the 2011 Analytical Laboratory Award winning novella), New Wineskins, and A Dangerous Intent.
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Humanity By Proxy
A robotic pack horse carries a secret, connecting a wife, her grandson and a tragic friendship.
A rogue tomato plant on a space station wrecks romantic havoc.
The Music Teacher is a device. It’s not clear what it does. But you’ll steal it anyways.
It’s just another day at the hardware store until Sarah asks for a plastic thingy. It has to be red and it has to conduct electricity. Sort of.
Humanity By Proxy and other stories is a collection of science fiction stories from the pages of Analog magazine and Stupefying Stories by Mark Niemann-Ross. Includes Humanity by Proxy, A Cup of Dirt, Plastic Thingy and The Music Teacher.
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Patches Catches the Sargo County Cattle Rustler
Patches, a talented Border Collie, teams up with his young owner to outwit a cattle rustler in the old west.
Patches Catches the Sargo County Cattle Rustler tells how John is left in charge of his younger sister when his parents are called away on an emergency. When he finds a desperate outlaw in the kitchen, his only defense is a good story – and Patches.
Written by award-winning author Mark Niemann-Ross and illustrated in full color by David Brandt, children will love the surprise ending.
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