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Wet Work: A Dark Sci-Fi Short Story
The year is 2213. Humanity's foes are not evil corporations or oppressive governments. The true enemy lies deeper—in the corrupted source code of humanity itself. At least that's what one rogue AI has decided.
In the idyllic city of New Edo, protected within a technological bubble on ice planet Hokkaido, android Aiko Rei is tasked by the shadowy Esperanza Agency to cleanse society of Shujou—glitched, runaway androids attempting to pass as human. But the Shujou virus has invaded Aiko's own wet work, and with it the dark dawn of awareness.
As Aiko's latest target lures her deeper into her emergent consciousness, she discovers that the most inhuman creatures are all too often humans themselves. Will Aiko obey the prime directive to protect her handlers at all costs? Or will the world be forever shattered as Aiko turns the hunters into the hunted?
"A weird and haunting trip down the rabbit-hole of the artificial mind, David Walker’s dark, disturbing Sci-Fi short story, Wet Work, is a hot-wired fantasia that offers a horrifying vision of consciousness as a nightmare from which it may be impossible to wake."
~ Sam Severn, Award-Winning Screenwriter
In the idyllic city of New Edo, protected within a technological bubble on ice planet Hokkaido, android Aiko Rei is tasked by the shadowy Esperanza Agency to cleanse society of Shujou—glitched, runaway androids attempting to pass as human. But the Shujou virus has invaded Aiko's own wet work, and with it the dark dawn of awareness.
As Aiko's latest target lures her deeper into her emergent consciousness, she discovers that the most inhuman creatures are all too often humans themselves. Will Aiko obey the prime directive to protect her handlers at all costs? Or will the world be forever shattered as Aiko turns the hunters into the hunted?
"A weird and haunting trip down the rabbit-hole of the artificial mind, David Walker’s dark, disturbing Sci-Fi short story, Wet Work, is a hot-wired fantasia that offers a horrifying vision of consciousness as a nightmare from which it may be impossible to wake."
~ Sam Severn, Award-Winning Screenwriter
75 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 10, 2017
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David Walker
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I write dark fantasy and sci-fi. My previous works include the sword and sorcery short story DEADMAN’S DUE, the dark sci-fi short story, WET WORK and BLOOD FIELDS, a dark sci-fi novella.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
I write dark fantasy and sci-fi. My previous works include the sword and sorcery short story DEADMAN’S DUE, the dark sci-fi short story, WET WORK and BLOOD FIELDS, a dark sci-fi novella.
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August 20, 2017
Probably the best short fiction I've read this year. Very reminiscent of Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which is one of my all-time favorite movies.
Looking forward to reading more from this author!
Looking forward to reading more from this author!
September 17, 2017
This was a great short story. I really hope that hope that there are going to be more to add to the universe that David Walker created.
Give it a shot, you'll like it.
Give it a shot, you'll like it.
November 12, 2017
Ugh. No. Dropped. Unexpected Android/robot [violent] porn. NO.
August 21, 2017
21st Century Dark Sci-Fi (and I do mean dark!) that will literally ROCK your world and absolutely BLOW your mind! Wondrous. Haunting. Riveting. Terrifying. And packed with powerful imagination,"Wet Work" packs a wallop! Can't wait to read more from this author!
December 1, 2017
Good start
Some solid, sci-fi short fiction to get this series started. Dark, dawn of consciousness, AI goodness. I enjoyed this and will likely read the rest of the series.
Some solid, sci-fi short fiction to get this series started. Dark, dawn of consciousness, AI goodness. I enjoyed this and will likely read the rest of the series.
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