Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #13 April 2015 | Page 101

ace, they’ve hardly done well out of it.
Around about the time my thoughts get to this point
I fall into an uneasy, hypnogogic half-sleep and I can
see myself floating among all the miles and miles of
cabling and server racks that made up the server farm,
wandering through the maze of wiring, watching the

blinking lights and listening to the whirrs of the maintenance robots picking their way along the innards of
the giant, cleaning, repairing, keeping it all going.
I wake with a start. Take a Valium and go to sleep.
I keep my suspicions to myself.

Laurie Smith

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