Archie Artursen, the engineer brought in by the Yomuro Group to make the robots work, has revealed to Cal that the hidden code buried in their firmware is based upon a program he had developed years ago for the U.S. Military before the project was scrapped–a program that would allow the defense computers which launch […]

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Lee Hester’s second encounter with Black Bart has resulted in him being thrown through yet another storefront window and Cal getting beaten up just a little bit, but with some quick thinking and the front end of a stolen car they seemed to have subdued the mechanical villain. What they don’t know is before shutting […]

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Okay, don’t anybody say I don’t write cutting-edge science fiction thrillers when I choose to write cutting edge science fiction thrillers. I saw this story yesterday on Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/british-group-campaigns-against-autonomous-death-bots/

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While the Calbot and his robotic posse head west toward the ocean under cover of darkness, the real Cal is tired and frustrated and even worse, stuck in the car with a soap opera actor who Daisy and Dean seem to be starstruck over. Unbeknownst to them, General Haddick is en route to Los Angeles […]

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What do you do when you come face to face, in a darkened city, with a giant robotic T-Rex? Well, you run… for your life. That is if the T-Rex will let you. Because once that mechanical monster decides that you are some kind of threat, well, your job of escape has become that much […]

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Cal, Daisy and Dean have managed to escape from the arena with the story-hungry jackals of the media in hot pursuit. They’ve lost the news vans and news helicopters but have smashed up Daisy’s car in the process and now Cal has discovered that he’s lost the cell phone given to him by Transistor Rodeo […]

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Two million bucks to bring the robots home. That’s the bounty the Yomuro Group is offering Cal given their hope that the robotic A.I. programming based upon his behavioral characteristics will allow him to ironically, think like them. Given Cal’s financial outlook now that things have gone down the tubes, he’s obviously more than willing […]

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With robots running loose and no other options left for the Yomuro Group to save face, Cal gets drafted into service. But is this old rodeo legend in for more than he bargained for?
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