A. K. Meek

A small Georgia town is burning. On the heels of an invasion by an unknown enemy, power is knocked out across the country. Attacked by outsiders, Bartel closes its doors to the world. A wall is built to keep intruders out, but it also keeps everyone in. Each day is a struggle to survive as old disagreements surface. Two brothers on different sides of the law navigate a tumultuous relationship while facing a new, powerless existence. The sheriff finds himself trying to maintain order when no one wants order. He and his small-town deputies face perils they never imagined. The burnout finds even when given a new start, he's still on the losing end. He soon finds himself in over his head when he hooks up with a band of outlaws, inevitably bringing hell on Earth to his brother, to order, and to his hometown.

Prepare for the Singularity A hardened detective is disturbed by the first android murder... A cyborg questions his own existence as he prepares for war on the moon... Two children realize nightmares aren't just for the night... Abigail wants to get surgery to look like her favorite robot rock star... Malfunctioning androids can become a nuisance for a city... A week old robot adjusts to her emotional nature... Androids are the social elite; they're the rock stars, the A-list actors, the CEOs. They're the modern day gods, and everyone wants to be like them. And with emotion chip upgrades, they're more like us than ever before. Eleven short stories tell of an uncertain future with robots living at our sides. It's Bicentennial Man and A. I. Artificial Intelligence uploaded into one mainframe.

Rumors of war become grim factOld Micah Dresden has an uncanny knack for fixing things. Fortunately, he lives in the Boneyard, a technological junkyard that stretches for miles in the Desert Southwest. Each day he eagerly dives into his work so he doesn't have to dwell on his departed wife. When a stranger shows up whispering rumors of war-a revival of the terrible Machine Wars of a decade before-Micah decides to fight fire with fire: he will find and fix Machine X. But the futuristic ship built by the defeated enemy AI is now locked away by the government. To reach it, Micah and his trusty obsessive-compulsive robot will need to make a perilous trip through human scavengers and the inhuman dreaded Beast. But none of this prepares him for what he ultimately discovers within the enemy machine. Sanford and Son meets I, Robot in this epic battle like you've never read.