"I can't make it sound more enticing than that," the doctor sighed from behind his desk, dispirited, but Lubanzi was hooked on the idea. A caring robot sounded cool, and it would help him live in his apartment in Claremont again.

A terrible tragedy had overtaken two friends of mine, diving buddies of three years standing, but I was alive.

Konrad picked up his lance. When the judge gave the signal, he aimed his weapon at his adversary and opened the valve that allowed the steam to flow into the piston. His armored motorcycle shot out across the tiltyard seeking to ram Baron von Kobell

I would be staring past the characters at the painted background. Faraway hills and tall summer trees against a wide horizon. What was there?

Taking in my garden, the wild space surrounding it, full of Spanish grasses and the song of a meadowlark echoing over it, I realized, not for the first time, that I had been very fortunate in the place I lived as a child, some forty years before.

You won't find me on any map either. I, too, have been buried, not by Tarmac and sand, but by time and indifference.

Through clouds of smoke, his blue eyes examined the ladies and gentlemen in front of him. They all looked hard at work, and he smiled at their naiveness, then chuckled, which turned into a coughing fit.

With her degrees in neuroscience and engineering, and her specializations in prosthetics and robotics, she was more than capable of producing a pair of mechanical ears that would replicate the abilities of true human ones.

If we had any hope of returning with even a shred of sanity, we’d need to try as best we could to keep a solid sleep schedule.

When Yoana Hernandez decided to become a psychiatrist she never imagined one day her patients would be artificial intelligence.