Robot Horizon – Opening Chapters

GO TO EACH STORY FOR ITS OPENING CHAPTERS:

THE NEED FOR CONSCIOUSNESS

Follow the story of a desperate one-man operation to seek out and deactivate a robot on a distant planet, a robot believed to have murdered an entire human colony. A planet with no indigenous animal life but plenty of indigenous and extremely lethal plant life. A great story to read if you are interested in the extreme behaviour of artificial intelligences as well as the extreme behaviours and colourful descriptions of alien life-forms.

WHEN TEARS HAVE DRIED

Sophie and her grandfather venture upon the bone-dry desert seabed of the Atlantic in a dystopian future in search of forbidden natural water. Beware of what you wish for!

THE NEANDERTHAL SECRET

A group of children spy a robotic fly while enjoying a picnic. The creators of the fly are rather surprising.

THE FINAL DECEPTION

In a dystopian future plagued by an extreme religion, follow the exploits of a dwindling group of non-religious survivors and their efforts to find another world to escape to.

A BLIP IN MODERNITY

Come visit a town in the distant future. Little Tumbleweed. An anachronism within an anachronism. A desert town where the inhabitants prefer to live in an ancient Wild West culture, yet with 1960s technology. They do this because they hate modernity so much. Imagine their disdain when into their town steps a modern business man seeking his two children. And furthermore, he has the effrontery to have a highly technological prosthetic arm! And boy, does this mean business man mean business!

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME

The chase is on for a strange boy. Is he a ghost, an alien or maybe an angel? Join in on the weirdest of chases carried out by two curious pupils Sarah and Terry.

GRAND FINALE

In a typical quirky British sci-fi novella, written in a very theatrical and cinematic style, an Earthling and his “ventriloquist’s dummy” take on the most omnipotent alien in the known Universe. Intelligence, originality and humour are the most powerful weapons in our odd-ball duo’s arsenal. Prepare for comedic insults let loose to ultimate effect.