Second Sight: A Science Fiction Short Story

By Karen Myers

BORROWING SOMEONE ELSE'S PERCEPTIONS FOR A POPULAR DEVICE CAN ONLY MEAN COMMERCIAL SUCCESS. RIGHT?

A Science Fiction Short Story.

Samar Dix, the inventor of the popular DixOcular replacement eyes with their numerous enhancements, has run out of ideas and needs another hit. Engaging a visionary painter to create the first in a series of Artist models promises to yield an entirely new way of looking at his world.

But looking through another's eyes isn't quite as simple as he thinks, and no amount of tweaking will yield entirely predictable, or safe, results.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Mar 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781629620480

Book preview

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Second Sight — A Science Fiction Short Story

BORROWING SOMEONE ELSE’S PERCEPTIONS FOR A POPULAR DEVICE CAN ONLY MEAN COMMERCIAL SUCCESS. RIGHT?

Samar Dix, the inventor of the popular DixOcular replacement eyes with their numerous enhancements, has run out of ideas and needs another hit. Engaging a visionary painter to create the first in a series of Artist models promises to yield an entirely new way of looking at his world.

But looking through another’s eyes isn’t quite as simple as he thinks, and no amount of tweaking will yield entirely predictable, or safe, results.

Second Sight

A Science Fiction Short Story

Perkunas Press

2635 Baughman Cemetery Road

Tyrone, Pennsylvania 16686

USA

PerkunasPress.com, KarenMyersAuthor.com

Author contact: [e-mail]

© 2014 by Karen Myers

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published 2017. First Edition.

EPUB ISBN-13: 978-1-62962-048-0

EPUB ISBN-10: 1629620483

Publisher's Cataloging-in-Publication Data

provided by Five Rainbows Cataloging Services

Names: Myers, Karen, 1953-

Title: Second sight : a science fiction short story / Karen Myers.

Description: Tyrone, PA : Perkunas Press, 2017.

Identifiers: ISBN 978-1-62962-048-0 (EPUB ebook) | ISBN 978-1-62962-049-7 (Kindle ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Scientists--Fiction. | Voyages, imaginary--Fiction. | Perception--Fiction. | Technology--Fiction. | Science fiction, American. | BISAC: FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction. | FICTION / Short Stories (single author). | GSAFD: Science fiction. | Voyages, Imaginary. | Short stories.

Classification: LCC PS3613.Y4726 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6--dc23.

ALSO BY KAREN MYERS

The Hounds of Annwn

To Carry the Horn

The Ways of Winter

King of the May

Bound into the Blood

Story Collections

Tales of Annwn

Short Stories

The Call

Under the Bough

Night Hunt

Cariad

The Empty Hills

The Chained Adept

The Chained Adept

Mistress of Animals

Broken Devices

On a Crooked Track

Science Fiction Short Stories

Second Sight

Monsters, and More

The Visitor, and More

SHORT TABLE OF CONTENTS

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECOND SIGHT

IF YOU LIKE THIS STORY…

ALSO BY KAREN MYERS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SECOND SIGHT

There’s hardly any difference at all, is there? Samar Dix allowed his disappointment to color his voice, and the techs gathered around him on the western terrace of his home shared sidelong glances.

He nudged off the ultraviolet view-segment and looked again at the sweeping vista, one of his favorites. He noted an incoming gust, alerted by the flattening of the long grass below him on the slope, and he turned his back to protect his eyes