In the near future, the moon has been pressed into service as a warehouse for the vast data archive created by our constant internet use.
But now those billions of cat memes come under threat from a computer virus. Two astronauts must travel through this strange landscape to save them, completely alone apart from the passing thoughts of everyone.
Nick Bryan is a London-based writer of genre fiction, usually with some blackly comic twist. As well as the ongoing self-published detective saga Hobson & Choi, he is also working on a novel about the real implications of deals with the devil and has stories in several anthologies.
Science Fiction, in my opinion, is about considering a situation, real or otherwise, and depicting, whilst exploring, a potential outcome. This has been achieved in many, many ways which gives us the rich and sometimes related set of scenarios.
Moonframe is no different.
In the limited amount of space it sets and considers a situation where, in my interpretation, limited intelligence is deliberately added to a manmade creation never intended to have it.
Moonframe considers the options open to the creator.of their artificially enhanced creation.
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"My name is Doctor Harriet Marks and I turned the moon into a data bank. This is my last testament."
Dark and tragic, Harriet is proud of her work until a fellow employee ruins it with a dangerous virus. She refuses to give it up, but with the virus infecting others and her husband next in line, she takes it upon herself to destroy herself and her life's work.