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    The Last Broadcast
    The Last Broadcast
    The Last Broadcast
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    The Last Broadcast

    By Christopher Ruz

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    The colony ship known as the Vale has been spiralling towards Epsilon Eridani for four millennia, and Barry - the semi-sentient AI set to guard its frozen human cargo - has had a long time to question the nature of his mission. There are too many gaps in his code, too many mistakes left unfixed.

    Could Barry's programmers really have been so lax? Or does he have a greater purpose, some secret mission buried in his source code? He has another eighteen thousand years to find the answer. In the meantime, he's growing bored, and idle hands are the devil's playthings...

    The Last Broadcast is a 2300 word short story in the style of Philip K Dick and Alfred Bester.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristopher Ruz
    Release dateApr 18, 2013
    ISBN9781497712577
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      At first glance it simple, but incredibly poignant and complicated. Enjoyed this very much. I think the more you can fill in blanks with your own fears, the more disturbing yet hopeful the story becomes—for Barry, that is ☻ and it’s only fair.

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    The Last Broadcast - Christopher Ruz

    The Last Broadcast

    by Christopher Ruz

    Copyright © Christopher Ruz Hayes-Kossmann 2011 All Rights Reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or copied without written consent from the author.

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    The Last Broadcast

    Twelve thousand and eighteen crew snap-frozen in air-tight pods, brain activity reduced to an abstraction of the Kelvin scale. Six thousand semi-sentient repair scrubbers, flitting around the inside of the Vale with hyperactive enthusiasm, polishing every relay and nano-cluster to a laser sheen. The hull is fluid and self-repairing. The engines pluck hydrogen directly from the vacuum.

    The Vale has been spiralling towards Epsilon Eridani for four millennia and isn't projected to arrive for

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