
The Invariable Man – short story
Sanford and Son meets I, Robot in this epic battle like you’ve never read.
Old Micah Dresden has an uncanny knack for fixing things.
Fortunately, he lives in the Boneyard, a technological junkyard that stretches for miles in the Desert Southwest. Each day he eagerly dives into his work so he doesn’t have to dwell on his departed wife.
When a stranger shows up whispering rumors of war—a revival of the terrible Machine Wars of a decade before—Micah decides to fight fire with fire: he will find and fix Machine X. But the futuristic ship built by the defeated enemy AI is now locked away by the government.
To reach it, Micah and his trusty obsessive-compulsive robot will need to make a perilous trip through human scavengers and the inhuman dreaded Beast. But none of this prepares him for what he ultimately discovers within the enemy machine.
The Invariable Man – The Novel
Sanford and Son meets I, Robot in this epic battle like you’ve never read.
Old Micah Dresden has an uncanny knack for fixing things.
Fortunately, he lives in the Boneyard, a technological junkyard that stretches for miles in the Desert Southwest. Each day he eagerly dives into his work so he doesn’t have to dwell on his departed wife.
When a stranger shows up whispering rumors of war—a revival of the terrible Machine Wars of a decade before—Micah decides to fight fire with fire: he will find and fix Machine X. But the futuristic ship built by the defeated enemy AI is now locked away by the government.
To reach it, Micah and his trusty obsessive-compulsive robot will need to make a perilous trip through human scavengers and the inhuman dreaded Beast. But none of this prepares him for what he ultimately discovers within the enemy machine.
The Robot Chronicles (The Future Chronicles)
Robots. Androids. Artificial Intelligence. Scientists predict that the “singularity” — the moment when mankind designs the first greater-than-human intelligence — is nearly within our grasp. Believe it or not, truly sentient machines may be a reality within as little as 20 years.
Will these “post-human” intelligences be our friends? Our servants? Our rivals? What will we learn from them? What will they learn from us? Will we allow them to lead their own lives? Will they have basic human rights? Will we? Science and society will be forced to address these questions sooner than you think. But science fiction is addressing these questions today.
In The Robot Chronicles, thirteen of today’s top sci-fi writers explore the approaching collision of humanity and technology.
The Invariable Man short story – The Future Chronicles
The Future Chronicles is the premier title in the #1 bestselling speculative fiction anthology series of the same name, and one of the most acclaimed short story anthology series of the digital era.
Created by award-winning author and series editor Samuel Peralta, with some of the most-respected editors of the genre as guest editors, each volume of the Future Chronicles brings together work from new visionary authors and from the grandmasters of modern science fiction and fantasy, from USA Today, NY Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, and from Hugo and Nebula award-winners.
The Chronicles’ unique take on major science fiction and fantasy themes – A.I., aliens, time travel, dragons, telepaths, zombies, immortality, galactic battles, cyborgs, doomsday – has enthralled readers in a renaissance of short fiction.
This Special Edition is a compendium of some of the best stories selected from the Future Chronicles’ standalone titles, and includes five new stories, never before published, from some of today’s best writers in speculative fiction.