CONTENTS:

"Death Robot: Mythology and Imagination": a foreword by Mark R. Brand
"Bitty-Bright is Lonely" by Gayla Chaney
"Thank You, Death Robot" by Victor Giannini
"Commission Report on the Virginian Confessor Program" by Scott Lyerly
"A Better Mousetrap" by Norm Vigeant
"Deadlines" by Andy Laughton and Paul Hughes
"The Cobbler Cherry" by Dan Kopcow
"Growing Pains" by Gary Starta
"Mortal Coil" by DJ Burnham
"Garage Angel" by Roger Haller
"The Hill" by Russell Lutz
"Command Authority" by Justin Oldham
"Cost-Ner, Inc." by Becci Noblit Goodall

 

ABOUT THE EDITOR: Mark R. Brand was born in 1978 and raised in Evans Mills, NY. He graduated from St. Lawrence University in 2001 with a dual degree in Biology and Sociology. He is a practicing Massage Therapist and currently lives in Evanston, IL with his wife Beth and son John.

His second novel, Red Ivy Afternoon (Silverthought, 2006) received a bronze medal in the Independent Publishing Awards in the category of Fantasy/Science Fiction. Other previous literature credits include the short stories “Cameron’s Encyclopedia” and “The Cabana” in Silverthought: Ignition: A Speculative Fiction Anthology, “The Riot Act” and “Ballerina” in Alien Light: A Science Fiction Anthology, edited by Carl Rafala, and an essay in To Wound The Autumnal City, a 9-11 tribute edited by Paul Hughes.

 

 

 

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THANK YOU,
DEATH ROBOT
edited by Mark R. Brand
cover illustration by Len Nicholas


IF YOU RUN, IT WILL CATCH YOU.
IF YOU HIDE, IT WILL FIND YOU.
IF YOU RESIST, IT WILL DESTROY YOU.

A jaded ex-wife prepares a deadly surprise for her husband’s new bride, a robotic executioner discovers there’s more to lethal injection than just needles, an army of war machines not interested in polite conversation have humanity in their gun-sights, an aging actor treads the line between man and machine, and from beyond come the towering steel shadows of monsters that blot out the starlight.

It is estimated that within our generation’s lifetime a computer will be built that can exceed the raw computational power of the human mind. Shortly thereafter, a computer will be built that can “think” faster than the human race…

From the earliest stories of Golems and clockwork men in the nineteenth century to Hollywood films full of steel-skinned mechanical killing machines, authors and filmmakers for the last two hundred years have given birth to an emerging archetype: a manifestation of industrial malevolence, a cautionary tale of technological hubris, and a call to reassert the tenuous hold modern man has over the machines that do his bidding.

An enduring icon much beloved of science fiction fans everywhere, the Death Robot comes to life in this collection of stories by some of the brightest upcoming stars in speculative fiction.

 

THANK YOU, DEATH ROBOT edited by Mark R. Brand Publisher: Silverthought Press ISBN: 978-0-9815191-9-7 270 pages paperback: $14.99 + S/H

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