Even though they don’t know it, all the people on Earth are thinking at the same thing: how to write a formula that can kill an alien robot. Not consciously, of course. Many of them are asleep. Many don’t know[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Grand Central Terminal, New York Two thousand pounds of alien metal crash through the ceiling, and the Talos falls to the ground with the sound of a bomb. Most of the windows are already in pieces, thanks to the recent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s amazing how fast people can run after they see an alien robot. The Talos looks like some sort of futuristic knight, with a black and white armor and a shining red visor over its eyes. Not very scary, until[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob hates moving. He should be used to it by now: he’s never lived in the same place for more than a couple of years, but he’s never appreciated it in any way. Maybe that’s because this is the first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Vesta is sitting on the edge of the roof on Two East River Place, the skyscraper that is her home now. She always liked watching the city from the sky, and she’s glad that mortals in the last century have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chicago Kayla still isn’t really sure she isn’t dreaming. Her brother Max, who is supposed to be in New York, has been telling the story of what happened to him the night before. When he first showed her his powers,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Null wakes up with the smell of bacon. It’s not a bad way to wake up, the only problem is that there shouldn’t be anyone cooking it. His daughter couldn’t cook even if her life depended on it. Did[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Max Black was pretty much raised by comic books and television; his father was a cop and his mother never had less than two jobs at a time. Contrary to the cliché, he wasn’t the black nerdy kid with glasses[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The moon dust settles slowly, thanks to the lower gravity. Noriko Null stands on the green ashes that used to be a woman a few seconds earlier. <You…you vaporized her> Max says. <You have a real talent for stating the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For all his family’s complicated history, Bob’s world used to make sense. He was a single father in his middle thirties with an eighteen year old daughter; remembering his date’s name and making sure her daughter’s life was going to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
