Wake 1

‘We’re here to repossess your reality.’
‘Sorry?’
‘You haven’t been keeping up your payments so all this shit is down the tubes, mate — that’s what.’
‘But I don’t get it.’
‘Bingo. That’s right; you don’t get it.’
‘This is an intravenously administered existence and we’re pulling the plug.’
‘But my wife, my children …’
‘Your beautiful house … yeah, we get [...]

Robe Hot 1

Mortimer was a direct descendant of Babbage’s computers and he was very proud of it — he had a plaque in the centre of his chest that proclaimed that very fact. The chipheads weren’t of as distinguished a lineage as he could claim. There was doubt as to the future of that line though — [...]