Keep Fighting

By Eva Holmquist

In a city full of androids – humanoid robots indistinguishable from their flesh and blood counterparts — Kate joins the resistance to fight a world ruled by machines. She wants freedom. No surveillance cameras. No random interrogations by the security forces. Then Kate stumbles on a secret that could change everything. Will she and the resistance succeed in defeating the machines, or will they die trying?

 

This short story has previously been published in the anthology "Waiting for the Machines to Fall Asleep".

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ordspira Förlag
• Release date: Mar 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9789198182576

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Keep fighting

In a city full of androids – humanoid robots indistinguishable from their flesh and blood counterparts — Kate joins the resistance to fight a world ruled by machines. She wants freedom. No surveillance cameras. No random interrogations by the security forces. Then Kate stumbles on a secret that could change everything. Will she and the resistance succeed in defeating the machines, or will they die trying?

This short story has previously been published in the anthology Waiting for the Machines to Fall Asleep.

Eva Holmquist

ISBN: 978-91-981825-7-6

Omslag: Andreas Raninger

Ordspira Förlag, 2016

© Eva Holmquist

Kate held her breath and pressed her face against the glass dome. She was watching a falcon as it circled in the sky. Magnificent. How she longed to escape the city and see the other animals that lived outside. The city was stifling - much too big for her taste - and then there were the machines always watching, everywhere, except down in the culverts, below the streets.

Do we have to spend our free day like this? Erik complained with a sigh. We haven’t had a free day in a month. There are lots of exciting things to do.

Kate turned from the breath-taking view and leaned against the balcony railing. Below her Third Main Street dissected the city. If she could fly like the bird and view the dome from above, the city would look like a small circle within a larger one, the four main streets passing from perimeter to perimeter through the center.

"We could take the elevator to the