Envision a future where: a young woman flees to save her android boyfriend; immortality is the worst kind of life sentence; a robot dog stands in the way of a great heist; no bug spray will stop this infestation; and solving a murder ripples through a detective's life deeper than any echo.
Dren was a warship with no more war, no more people and even no more living planets in the sector; his human companion was the last of her race; she would hold that title for only one week though, the radiation in her body ensured that.
