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    Control Alt... Revolution
    Control Alt... Revolution
    Control Alt... Revolution
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    Control Alt... Revolution

    By Ralph Bougher

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    In the future humans must watch what they do and what they say least their robot masters label them as contaminated and dangerous.

    Carrie and Joseph Turner have been living and farming their land under the watchful eyes of a robot master race for their entire lives. The mysterious death of Carrie's brother many years ago haunts Carrie as she ages. When Joseph reveals that he had suspected foul play all along, he and Carrie suddenly find themselves unable to remain silently subservient to the robots.

    After an escape and chase across the county Joseph Turner finds himself in a long imagined face to face, life and death test of wills with the local Controller.

    Control Alt... Revolution is a somewhat brutal look at how a single event at an exact moment in time can completely change the course of a civilization.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRalph Bougher
    Release dateAug 19, 2012
    ISBN9781452431376
    Control Alt... Revolution
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    Ralph Bougher

    Aerospace company shift supervisor who has spent many a late night fighting with one production robot or another. It's time to stop just sitting on these stories of the hard life and the dark of night. Also, carrying around a bunch of detailed info on tool makin and production line machine trouble shootin... It long ago past the point where I take any crap from the machines. Quote me on this... "If you believe there is no edge of the Universe go play at the event horizon of a black hole."

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      Control Alt... Revolution - Ralph Bougher

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      Written By

      Ralph L Bougher

      Control Alt… Revolution

      Copyright - 2012 - Ralph L Bougher

      Published By: Ralph L Bougher

      Cover Art: Ralph L Bougher

      Smashwords Edition

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      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the owner and the above publisher of this book.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or they are used fictitiously. The author acknowledges the trademark status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. The publication/use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with or sponsored by the trademark owners.

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      Table of Contents

      The Unwinding Begins

      Discovered Conspiring

      Reawakening

      The Kill

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      In the town square of a small rural village somewhere in the mid-west of what was once called America... a man’s body lies motionless on the ground. The body lies at the feet of a vaguely regal appearing robot that is droning out an announcement insisting that all citizens in the community come to the square. The pair is flanked on both sides by a couple of rather large military looking robots. The robots appear to be ignoring the body as it begins to twitch... no doubt from pain as the body is very bloody and appears to be somewhat broken. A small crowd has started to form in a semicircle in front of where the body lays.

      The announcement continues... "We have always worked toward mankind’s advancement and safety; those are our only priorities. However, punishment and removal of dissent must be swift to ensure that these goals can be maintained. To that end we must demand that all local inhabitants and visitors to this area present themselves for our census and questioning. This may seem harsh but it is necessary.

      Anyone living in this town or the bordering farmland who is not present here in this square within 50 minutes will be arrested due to suspicion of conspiring..."

      Joe lay there, trying not to move too much even though he is in desperate pain from the long battle and from the roughness of the handling by the hover-lifter; some broken ribs no doubt, lots of cuts and bruises, and a nasty bump on his head. "Not bad for an

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