Created in response to the collapse of the Earth's biosphere, the great domed city of Fairhaven was designed as a self-sustaining human habitat, managed by a sophisticated artificial intelligence. But after centuries of gradual decline, Fairhaven can no longer support more than a tiny fraction of its once-burgeoning populace. Now, deadly robotic predators known as fells stalk the city's residential zone, and the people live in shanty towns, out beyond the encircling river. However, finished goods are still delivered from the city's automated factories to the empty homes, and so harvesters -…mehr
Created in response to the collapse of the Earth's biosphere, the great domed city of Fairhaven was designed as a self-sustaining human habitat, managed by a sophisticated artificial intelligence. But after centuries of gradual decline, Fairhaven can no longer support more than a tiny fraction of its once-burgeoning populace. Now, deadly robotic predators known as fells stalk the city's residential zone, and the people live in shanty towns, out beyond the encircling river. However, finished goods are still delivered from the city's automated factories to the empty homes, and so harvesters - teenagers, and children as young as age ten - cross the river every morning to search for food and other essentials. The fells choose their targets by age, and so the youngest harvesters are usually safe from attack; but as they grow older, their work becomes ever more dangerous. Most will never see their twentieth birthday.
At one time or another, Doug Bedwell has been a playwright, an actor, a college instructor, a computer programmer, a lighting designer, a factory laborer, a carpenter, a department store clerk, a construction worker, a lab assistant, a landscaper, a summer camp counselor, a pizza delivery guy, and many other vocations too numerous or embarrassing to mention. Elements of this eclectic background frequently find their way into his creative work. For an artist, nothing is wasted. Every experience - good, bad, or otherwise - becomes one more source of insight or perspective. His plays have been produced in academic, community, and professional theatres from coast to coast. In 2016, he published his first novel, the science fiction comedy Robot Captain, followed in 2018 by the fantasy adventure A Counterfeit Princess. He has also published a novelette - The Stone Troll's Diary - and a small collection of poetry entitled Wastewood.
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