When the Levee Breaks - a Short Story

by Steve Keane

Overview

A couple thousand years from now Marlow, a self-aware starship tells a campfire story about how he got a blues song from 1929 stuck in his head. Along the way he falls in love, starts a family, and watches the Earth get destroyed. Sit down around the fire with him and his Neanderthal pals as he spins his tale.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015694987
Publisher:	Steve Keane
Publication date:	09/18/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	23 KB

About the Author

I started writing fiction in my mid 30s as a way to explore where humanity might be going. Reading Philip K. Dick in my youth jammed those ideas firmly into my consciousness. My main theme revolves around getting beyond the standard-issue, anti-technological ideas expressed by popular Science Fiction and Horror films like Frankenstein, the Terminator and the Matrix. I like those films but I believe they are partly responsible for some harmful ideas about our use of technology. Humans have been inseparable from our technology since at least the time of our ancestor Homo Habilis (literally "Handy Man," or tool-making/wielding man). We may never merge with our technology to the point of becoming full-on cyborgs, but we may. I would like to remain open to explore any possibility. I am active in the Transhuman/Singularity movement just so I can explore ideas with the wide variety of forward-looking scientists, philosophers, artists, and 9-5 M-F types like me.