V.I.

By Don Debrandt
First Published: 1998
“An organism from an alien world has linked with an artificial intelligence.”

The Nono Ticks came to the city of Myriad from the jungles of an alien world. Possessing the ability to arrange matter on a molecular level, they linked with an artificial intelligence and evolved into a new techno-organism.

A true computer bug, these viral intelligences are voracious in their hunger to control all inanimate systems. But now their appetite includes creatures of flesh and blood as well.

Now the bugs are loose. The infestation has begun…