Murder In the Dark City a Weird Future Detective Blaze Story

By Steven Farkas

Murder in the Dark City is a Pulp fiction story set in the year 2300. The private detective is Blue Blaze a robot who like the robots of the future, is a former police detective who has been put out to pasture in a future United States in which there is no education, no jobs, and little hope except for the super rich. Blaze is hired to find out who killed the wealthy Everett Kristoff. As he follows the clues he finds the killer much closer and devious than ever could be imagined. This like the pulp of the 1930's set in the distant future. A science fiction story with a pulp fiction feel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9781387288472

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Murder In the Dark City a Weird Future Detective Blaze Story

MURDER IN THE DARK CITY BY
STEVEN FARKAS A DETECTIVE BLAZE STORY FROM MYSTERIOUS WEIRD FUTURE STORIES

© Copyright 2017 by Steven Farkas

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For my family
Joan, Sean, Emma, Holly Four fellow Science Fiction nerds

CHAPTER 1

There were the normal metallic noises echoing off of the brick and steel around the alleyway as he lumbered along.  He was one of those, those robots who had been put out to pasture.

A hundred years ago the government had a brilliant idea, they were going to build an army of robots.  As well every police station in the nation would follow.  It was simple, perhaps they though it was more ethical to put an unthinking metallic robot without a soul in the firing line instead of human beings.

But fifty years into this experiment the whole thing began to unravel.  These unthinking programmable droids without a soul began to exhibit the same tiresome human traits that the government had hoped to no longer deal with in it’s military and police.  They wanted to remove the human traits of fear and self-preservation, but those robots began to show those traits, began to actualize as though they were human, began to reprogram themselves.

After several years of this self-actualization the government, both federal and state, began to see it as a serious problem.  Before long the robots were decommissioned and put out to

pasture as human beings began to return to those jobs and duties, leaving many robots either destroyed or if they were seen as not a threat to humanity simply put out on the street with little or no help or guidance.

This robot was as most were, programmed to be male, a programming in which he maintained. He was named 0050010357, but as he actualized he took on the name of Blue Blaze largely because of the color of his metal exterior at the time, which has now become silver in it’s appearance where it is not the color of rust and age.

This particular robot decided to use the skills for which he was programmed as a detective in the New York City police and use it now as a private detective, or a private dick as the slang would call him. 

As with other robots who have followed Blaze’s trail, it is a tough and lonely existence.  But, at least it is an existence, one of his making and his making alone.  Many others have found themselves little more then security guards at the mall, or worse yet, as what amounts to an in house slave serving mixed drinks for the rich at their parties.  Just the thought of such an existence makes Blaze shutter and overload his wiring.

He spends his nights clinking through the back alleys of the dark and dangerous city.  As with every city in the early twenty fourth century New York has both grown in size and grown in poverty and crime