By Chuck Wendig First Published: 2016 Rating: Trash Fire. Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBI—a futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. It’s her job to help them identify unforeseen threats: hackers, AIs, genetic modification, anything that in the wrong hands could harm the homeland. Hannah is in an airport, waiting to board a flight home to…
By Anne Harris First Published: 1998 Anne Harris returns with an outstanding look at the near future. Never before has her technological insight been so acute, or her portrayal of sex and gender issues more startling or insightful. A bio-technology corporation has created a new species, intelligent, four-armed, humanoid “tetras” who can live in the vats in which “the company” grows biopolymers. Both the tetras…
By Melissa Scott First Published: 1994 India Carless, alias Trouble, managed to stay one step ahead of the feds until she retired from life as a hacker and settled down to run a small network for an artist’s co-op. Now someone has stolen her pseudonym and begun to use it for criminal hacking. So Trouble returns. Once the fastest gun on the electronic frontier, she…
By Amy Thomson First Published: 1993 In the beginning, Arnold created Maggie .. She was called forth from the computer landscape of Virtual Reality. Arnold, her programmer and creator, gave Maggie a memory, a body, and finally, self-awareness. And Arnold saw that she was good. In an illegal experiment, Arnold develops his perfect companion–a robot named Maggie. She’s everything he ever wanted in a woman,…