The Auction
flash fiction
April, 1st Sunday
I’m leaving it and it’s over for a few days, I have become a rather good radar observer. The guy that told me it’s still unsold called me today. I wanted to place a bid but I refrained from doing so. A rare pony it is.
Martha wants another baby, as expensive as the other one, but they live only for two years… I’d rather have a pony and keep the bitcoin for the new skin and hair we need, if we don’t want to age more.
Somebody told me there’s an old real human priest in the woods. A priest of what? I asked.
“Pre Robot People had a thing they called Religion, but it’s forbidden knowledge. Hide the data in your subconscious.”
It’s not allowed, but I am thinking of paying him a visit. Woods… give me the creeps. They started to trust us, turned off microphones, cameras, we live like them now. Hope it ends well… Crap! I will get her another baby this time, two more years won’t make a difference.
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Oh, God! Is that what we’re in for! Bit disturbing, isn’t it.
Whilst your piece made me shudder at the thought, I was consoled by realising that I won’t be around. Nevertheless, is this what we are creating for our descendants. Jeez!
An entertaining and thought provoking Flash.
this is work in progress I may have a plan for a novel or just a story bigger than Email to a Reader, not funny at all but it may have sentimetally charming moments. the Robots in this story are helping humans understand what went wrong (or always goes wrong) and they will try and guess who is responsible more than the creator when the creator leaves nothing to chance. Is he really the creator or is he also participating in another, superior Creator’s experiment?
I hope I can continue. it depends on … chance.
Thanks!
A brilliant concept. I hope I get a chance to read your creation.
Allen
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Curious piece is this
Interesting read but I can’t help relating it to to echoes of Bladerunner
Never watched the movie and never will. Especially after learning about PKD’s daughter reaction when she saw the movie with her mother. or read that book(Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), I avoid it. Read more than 60 percent of PKD’s work in both languages a biography in English. I don’t know if there is any other writer out there who had the idea already, robots replace humans and are watched by humans who survived and humanity is less than 100 million on one continent Europe… the robots are designed in a specific way and little towns created, humans let… Read more »
Well I’m Dune man myself
FH got it right IMO in the preface and explanation to the body of the actual
novel
He looked way beyond the robot age when man rebelled against AI and sectarian religions
GM super-humans is the way to go
DT himself already thinks he is one but he’s a flee compared to the SH’s that will be the norm
FH, GM DT SH please what do these initials mean?
and what do you mean Dune man there is a movie I think Dune, wow okay I’m searching hmm FH must be Frank Herbert hmm
Yes Frank Herbert
Sh superhumans
Donald T
Forget the movies they are garbage
Read the fist book not the sequels they are garbage too
Forget the main book even
Get a paper copy read the ecology and the history behind the lead up to the story
Much more interesting really sparks the imagination and makes a lot of sense
I wouldn’t say FH was a genius but he put a lot of thought into the potential future
donald trump? thinks he is superhuman? ooookay.
will read more about this Dune guy, movies ruin books most of the time, as I have said for many decades now “the answer lies in Literature”.. thanks