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    Obsolete
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    Obsolete

    By William Mangieri

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    When we leave Earth, will we forget what it’s like to be human?
    Mr. Omega, the last unmodified "man", stands trial for unthinkingly preserving his own life over that of a superior being. Read “Obsolete” to decide who’s right.
    “Obsolete" is a short, speculative fiction, and is also available in the collection “Some More, And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get OUT OF MY MIND.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam Mangieri
    Release dateJul 29, 2016
    ISBN9781370315840
    Obsolete
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    William Mangieri

    William Mangieri is a karaoke junkie, former theater student, and recovered wargamer who spends as much time wondering "what if?" as "why not?". He writes from Texas, where he and his family live at the mercy of the ghost of a nine-pound westie.William writes mostly speculative fiction (that’s science fiction, fantasy and horror), although he also has a detective series with a soft sci-fi element (Detective Jimmy Delaney.) He completed writing his first novel (Swordsmaster) in 2019; prior to this, he has honed his skills on short fiction. He has been published in Daily Science Fiction and The Anarchist, and six of his stories have earned Honorable Mentions in the Writers of the Future contest.

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      Obsolete - William Mangieri

      Obsolete

      by William Mangieri

      Copyright 2015 by William Mangieri

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      The murder trial of Mr. Omega was held in the repurposed station cafeteria, which had been emptied of all but six tables. The handful of pre-selected witnesses and experts were seated at three tables by the cafeteria’s main entry, and with the exception of Station Chief Marston who, wearing his blue Service formals and as deliberately hairless as all his comrades, currently sat in the witness chair at the room’s center.

      The remainder of their peers, the general populace, watched the vid-streaming through an ample selection of camera angles. They were organized into three

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