Watching the Watcher

By Micah R. Sisk

A frantic call from a space lane traffic controller is fielded by a helpline representative. Out in the main asteroid belt, stationed on a sophisticated three-kilometer long space habitat, why does the caller find himself utterly alone? Why can't he remember his time away from work? Why does he never leave his cubestation? And why does the helpline rep keep fielding exactly this type of call?

"Watching the Watcher" is a short story set in The Posthuman Cycle universe. Our solar system is controlled by baseline humans who reject posthumanism, eschew genetic modifications and all body/mind augmentation, insisting upon the dominion of the genetically pure. The rest of the explored galaxy is inhabited by the posthuman diaspora, humans who accept and embrace (sometimes radical) body/mind augmentation as the final step in human evolution.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Micah R. Sisk
• Release date: Jul 26, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311963710

Micah R. Sisk

Micah R. Sisk was born at the U.S. Army medical hospital in Landstuhl, West Germany (there was a West Germany at the time) in 1958, and has lived most of his life since in Frederick County, Maryland, U.S.A. After a close encounter with Engineering, Micah received a Bachelor of Science degree in Art from Virginia Tech. He now makes his living as a database analyst at a major U.S. corporation, while in other incarnations he is, or has been, a landscape painter, real estate agent, assistant gallery director, retail sales manager, microfilm quality control tech, musician, composer, and builder of electronic musical instruments.Micah is married with cat(s) and is often seen puttering around Frederick, Maryland on his bicycle, hanging out at coffee houses reading and writing science fiction tales.

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Watching the Watcher

—A Posthuman Cycle Short Story—

By Micah R. Sisk

Copyright © 2014 by Micah R. Sisk.

Published by Micah R. Sisk at Smashwords

Cover design by James, GoOnWrite.com

ISBN – 9781311963710

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Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales—which is pretty funny when you think about it—is entirely coincidental.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title & Copyright

Watching the Watcher

About the Posthuman Cycle

About the Author

Other Works by Micah R. Sisk

Watching the Watcher

I think I need help. That’s how it always begins, isn’t it? It certainly seemed that way