Extensis Vitae: City of Sarx

by Gregory Mattix

  In his mind’s eye, Ichiro watched the shining packets of data traversing the nodes of the Datalink network. He had a god’s-eye view of the network laid out below him as he floated in the darkness overhead. From the busy, brightly congested networks of the New USA across the silvery data highways spanning the vast darkness of the wasteland, of which the majority was not yet connected, to the brightly burning star of Skin City and onward to the glittering lights along the Pac-Rim… it all lay there before him. Finally, I’m free.