Future Children ~ Agim Sulaj
“Markov IV” The carapace’s readout announced in a pale typeface alongside the warning “System Integrity Low”
In the back of my mind I made note that that particular warning was not one that I’d ever seen before. Most art-life systems were powered on ultra-low friction recuperative technology, backed up by thousands of f-years organo regenerative colonies, so are reliable to a very high degree.
Markov IV filled my vision, yellow ochre with a band of green/blue around her equator; I sucked in a deep breath of carapace air – no longer reeking of my shit, but fetid nonetheless.
Markov IV……shit
Dredging up a few rudimentary strings of mech-language gathered from f-years of having to depend on art-life I attempted to ask the carapace why it had brought me into a contaminated sector.
“System Integrity Low”
In the back of my mind I made note that that particular warning was not one that I’d ever seen before. Most art-life systems were powered on ultra-low friction recuperative technology, backed up by thousands of f-years organo regenerative colonies, so are reliable to a very high degree.
Markov IV filled my vision, yellow ochre with a band of green/blue around her equator; I sucked in a deep breath of carapace air – no longer reeking of my shit, but fetid nonetheless.
Markov IV……shit
Dredging up a few rudimentary strings of mech-language gathered from f-years of having to depend on art-life I attempted to ask the carapace why it had brought me into a contaminated sector.
“System Integrity Low”
This is an extract from "Decaying Orbits"; a novel taking its own sweet time in the writing.
5 comments:
i love a gritty good sci-fi story.
I 'm with Tom--- this sounds dark and twisty already ..... look forward to more; and an intriguing visual.
Get rid of politics and politicians before the f stop is slammed into and the system integrity will quadruple in an instant.
Please, sir, can I have some more?
Tom: me too - here's hoping I can create one :]
Harlequin: dark and twisty is what I live for :D
Walking Man: oh..kay :)
Gerry: more? more? I'll see what I can do :B
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