In the near future, the only thing growing faster than the criminal population is the Electric Church, a new religion founded by a mysterious man named Dennis Squalor. The Church preaches that life is too brief to contemplate the mysteries of the universe: eternity is required. In order to achiev...
Walking steadily toward the horizon, I wiped My Russians blood out of my eyes and heard him asking me, How many men have you killed, for yen? I shook a cigarette out and placed it between my lips. I didnt know. Id lost count. I was dead. Id died back in prison. As I leaned in to light up, the...
School had been easy, and he remembered laughing at the idiots who had to study, to work so hard when it was so easy. It was all just showing up. He didn’t get perfect grades, true, but he passed, and he thought it was a good trade, to skip all the hard work and have the same piece of paper as ev...
It did work, right up until it didn’t. “You got your trained bear on a leash, Vonnegan?” I looked up and stared at Heller, his shaved head flaking into drifts of off-white skin that settled on the shoulders of his black fur coat. The big oversized s...
LANDRY, MUTTERING “BALAHUL” UNDER his breath, wheeled the cart into the tiny room with exaggerated care, as if he’d only recently learned how gravity worked. My hostess smiled blandly as he maneuvered the cart between us, bearing a delicate-looking teapot with pink flowers on it, two white teacup...
I KNEW I WAS IN Nebraska, because there was nothing to see. Again, teleportation was disorienting by its nonexperiential nature. There was no visual or audio cue; suddenly, you were somewhere else. I stumbled because the ground was uneven after the perfect floors of the Shanghai apartment. I was ...