KindleNEW FICTION: WINDSOR EXECUTIVE SOLUTIONS by Chris Nakashima-Brown and Bruce SterlingPopular celebrations break the general darkness for the 100th birthday of the world's first posthuman monarch. Queen Elizabeth II is not alive, nor is she dead. Suspended under glass in icy limbo, she awaits the inevitable. Heretics who question the Queen's 'divine right to persist' swing from the surveillance lamps over the burning cars.
Five long years since our Queen fell and could not rise. Elizabeth has joined the ranks of prominent women deemed too important to die. Britain has never come to proper terms with life-extension.
Our elite zombies have become the obverse of our working-class suicide cults. The flesh of young women explodes among us daily while centenarians dream on ice.
The last functional segment of Government is the propaganda wing of the Royal Household -- now run mostly by Americans.
Meanwhile, hooligans raid immigrant neighborhoods after the pubs close, armed with assault rifles smuggled from Texas. Bobbies are genteel by day, death squads by night. Young upper class paramilitaries gather at posh wine-bars on 'Sloane Ranger' hunts for anarchists, crusties, and 'ugly people.'
The only viable tactical path is 'direct action' -- to exorcise the royal ghost from her Westminster crypt. Yes, that means 'assassination' -- in some strictly technical sense.
We forecast a techno-regicide. At Janes, it is our unpleasant business to assess the military odds of success.
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I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.
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