TAM! It's got the code. It's going to launch.

It's a unit system. I know this.

It's how all the files of the old work. It tells her everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

Eagle One. The package is being delivered.

Hello out there on the internet.

I am Matthew Galt.

This is Cyber.

Some days, it feels like all you can do is watch worlds burn.

This is especially true in those unpleasant places on Earth where we are all watched

over by machines of loving grace. Dron. The word has come to mean so many things. An eye in the

sky, a hobbyist flying toy, a dangerous voyeur, a weapon of war, an enforcer, a worker. But a worker

that's maybe not as soulless as the name implies, as AI gets more sophisticated

and the subroutines become rote, might it be possible to convert the electronic oppressor?

Well, today on cyber, we've got something special. Motherboard has published a book. It's called

Terraform and it's out now. It's a collection of short stories about the near future and the dystopian present.

With me today are the shows, or with me today are the books editors.

Claire L. Evans and Brian Merchant as well as special guest, Sarah Galey.

They are the author of the new novel, Just Like Home and the Terraform story, Drones to Plowshares.

And here's Sarah now with an excerpt.

Drone 792 Echo was still wearing the net that caught him.

It had been 72 hours since his last pass over the Apata Basin Farmstead.

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