Cities in Flight Retelling: A Life for the Stars Part 2 - School in Space
Chris deFord just arrived aboard New York City. The real one. Flying through space. And now the city wants to know: what is he good for?
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Chapter 6: The New Neighbor
John Isidore hears a TV playing somewhere below him in the building. That’s it. That’s all it takes. He grabs a cube of margarine and goes downstairs to meet whoever is there.
Cities in Flight Retelling: A Life for the Stars Part 1 - Kidnapped by a Flying City
We’re now in the second novel of Cities in Flight, and the story jumps forward by centuries. The spindizzies exist. The anti-aging drugs exist. And whole cities are ripping themselves off the ground and flying into space to find work among the stars. They call these migrant cities “Okies,” and the Earth they leave behind is broke, used up, and slowly emptying out.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Chapter 5: Testing Rachael
Chapter 5 is where Rick Deckard sits across from Rachael Rosen, shines a light into her eye, and starts asking questions designed to make her feel things. And the whole chapter reads like a poker game where both sides are cheating.
Ordinary Men Chapter 7: The Józefów Massacre - The Killing (Part 2)
Some of the men came out of the woods covered head to toe in blood and bone fragments. Their uniforms were soaked. Their hands were shaking. And the day was not even close to being over.
Starting Babel-17: A Book About Language That Can Hack Your Brain
What if a language could change the way you think? Not like learning French makes you say “ooh la la” more often. I mean actually rewire your brain. Make you see reality differently. Make you smarter. Or more dangerous.
Chapter 15: Rich Man, Poor Man - Life After the Biggest Whistleblower Payout
So what do you do when you walk out of prison and find $104 million waiting in your bank account? If you’re Birkenfeld, you stand on a cold New Hampshire beach watching a sailboat fight the waves and think: yeah, that’s me.
Cities in Flight Retelling: They Shall Have Stars Part 4 - Antigravity and Immortality
This is where everything pays off. All the political scheming, the impossible engineering on Jupiter, the secret drug research in the Bronx. In this final section of They Shall Have Stars, the two storylines crash into each other and we learn what Senator Wagoner was really doing all along.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Chapter 4: Meeting the Rosens
Before Rick can go hunt androids, his boss sends him on a field trip. To Seattle. To prove that his testing equipment actually works.
Cities in Flight Retelling: They Shall Have Stars Part 3 - The Race Heats Up
Things are picking up speed now. Both storylines in “They Shall Have Stars” start moving fast in chapters 5 through 8. The drug research in New York gets tangled up with love and spies. And out on Jupiter, the Bridge crew is cracking under the weight of that giant planet staring down at them. Let’s get into it.