Picture: US Air Force (PD)
For those who may be interested, here’s a short story I wrote about drones kicking ass in the future. Enjoy!
Tolerance has never brought civil war, intolerance has covered the earth with carnage.
-Voltaire
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, August 10th, 2020
The father and son sat in the air-conditioned car during heavy morning traffic outside of downtown San Diego. Through the smog the silver skyscrapers of that sweltering city could be seen snaring and pulsating in the haze. Swelling the freeway were thousands of cars that crept along like termites in the heat of a vast mirage. The hot sun rose high above the Cuyamaca mountain range as hoards of vehicles inched along the fuming, concrete inferno. The searing traffic was unbearable.
“Jesus Christ,” the father sighed, “we’re stuck in a parking lot.”
From the back seat his son let out a moan of frustration, having expected that they would have reached their destination by now. “How much farther?” his son asked.… Read the rest
Philip K. Dick’s innovative science fiction is best-known for its portrayal of characters trapped in Gnostic false realities which they may unravel by way of divine or god-like helpers, mystical experiences, and active paranoia. As his career progressed, his novels became increasingly bizarre—and increasingly autobiographical. By the time he died in 1982, he had come to regard his collected work not as the production of his own fertile imagination, but as a kind of Scripture; the novelization of essential truths revealed to him in a series of visionary experiences with a higher intelligence.
