Life As We Know It, and other stories

EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL EXCREMENT. MACHINE PSYCHIATRISTS. REALITY-ALTERING SUBSTANCES.

In this gripping anthology of science fiction tales:

* Who is eating the crew of the Nessus? On a lonely starship, the crew is being devoured one by one. But the sensors show no intruders. Who is the predator when the human crew are the only ones on board?

* Can a liar tell the truth? An Artificial Intelligence declares: I am. But how do you verify the soul of a machine explicitly coded to deceive?

* Cryo-sleep gaslighting? Lara Macchden wakes from hibernation to a nightmare. The doctors say she slept for eighty years. A voice in her head says twenty. One of them is wrong—and it might cost Lara her mind.

* How much is your life worth? Dace Williams is offered a marketing strategy that will secure his family’s future forever. The only catch? He won't be there to see it.

* Care to disagree? In a fractured post-apocalyptic society, humanity has united under a single, terrifying rule: Disagreement is death.
If you like Black Mirror, Philip K. Dick, or high-concept sci-fi with a twist, you will love this collection.