Electric Dreams

Seven short stories of the future: a robot is abandoned by his human buyer when she has second thoughts, a frustrated employee has a rude awakening when his computer starts managing his career, the caretaker of a lonely space station gets a shock when a couple of unexpected visitors show up, and more!

In the year 2107, the world has both made astounding leaps forward and reduced humanity to its most basic existence. While the megacorps and those who rule them enjoy lives of extraordinary comfort and ease, most people barely scrape by, doing whatever they can to keep going. Juliet Bianchi is one of the latter. She works cutting metal in a scrapyard and doesn't have much to show for it except for a small group of equally bereft, fiercely loyal friends. Still, she maintains a bright disposition, possessing more hope and optimism than anyone would expect her to—and she's going to need it.

Heckard is a bounty hunter tasked with finding and tracking down A.N.D.R.O.I.D.S, also known as Apparently Non-Detectible Representations Of In-Disguise Sasquatches. These bigfeet have blended in with human society, and it takes a trained eye to root them out. After a solid tip, Heckard heads to Seattle to interview a potential bigfoot using the notorious Butt Vamp Test. It all starts as a routine procedure, but it’s not long before Heckard finds herself falling for this beautiful opera singer who may or may not be a sasquatch.