Clayton Barnett

Empire's Agent and other Short Stories (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of eight short stories and one novella which glimpse into the future history that is Machine Civilization. From central Texas to Okinawa to the Russian tundra to the surface of Mars, catch the excitement as these multi-generational tales unfold! *** Story Summaries - 1. Dawn: the creation of Thinking Machines provokes a violent rift in the team that made them. 2. Broken Heart: an experiment with synthetic humans and demons goes horribly wrong. 3. Togame Tower: about to be sent to the former US, Nichole 5 spends a last night talking with the Empress of Japan. 4. Pine Bluff: Lily Barrett reconfronts the woman who attempted to kill her just a few months prior. 5. Empire's Agent (novella): a diplomat and SOG NCO travels from the Habsburg Empire to Texas to discover why the Thinking Machines are so taken with a certain human. He gets an answer he never expected. 6. Flight: a preview of the horrors which lurk just outside of Knoxville's little bubble of civilization. 7. First Among Equals: Reina, Thinking Machine and Prime Minister of the new Russian Empire gets a lesson in humility. 8. "No Better Friend; no worse enemy": broken man "Orloff" finally finds peace. 9. Old Friends: two generations after the fall of Portland, just back from a trip to Mars, Nichole 5 is surprised by a visitor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Clayton Barnett
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230545729
• Artikelnr.: 74041733

Autorenporträt

One-time design engineer, some-time pharmacy technician, full-time father and writer. Clayton Barnett continues to reinvent himself even into his dotage. Having tried his hand at writing visual novels a couple of years before, he thought that was all over. However, when unexpectedly confronted by National Novel Writing Month of November 2014... a throw-away line from Prof. Glenn Reynolds of UTenn-Knoxville linked with an image of Hatsune Miku in Clayton's mind, and he was off. Twenty three days later, he'd his first novel, "The Fourth Law."

Liking the people he met there, he set another irrational deadline and wrote some more of what is now called the Machine Civilization future history. That turned into his second novel, "Echoes of Family Lost." For NaNoWriMo 2015, he began "Crosses and Doublecrosses," a political-espionage thriller, but was thwarted by the genre and his wife's diagnosis of lymphoma. To give himself something to do and exercise his mind, he wrote the free webnovel, "Defiant."

With his best friend now in remission, he turned towards something lighter and untried: a children's book! Scouring the internet for an illustrator, he reached out to Claudia Gadotti in New Zealand for his most recent addition, "Henge's Big Day!"

To-date, Clayton has written and published twenty books in ten years.

Clayton lives in central Ohio with his wife and and various animals, with his two daughters now grown and out pursuing their lives.