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

It's a unit system. I know this.

It's all the files of the whole park. It tells you everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

Eagle one, the package is being delivered.

I do never, ever get tired of that intro.

Hello out there on the internet.

I am Matthew Galt, and this is cyber.

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

This is especially true in the desperate small towns that pocket the parts of America some derisively call flyover country.

Today on cyber, we've got something special.

Motherboard is publishing a book.

It's called Terraform.

It drops on August 16th.

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

With me today on the show are the books editors, Claire L. Evans, and Brian Merchant,

as well as guest, a special guest, Tim Morn. He's the author of the novel Infinite Detail and the Terraform story, Flyover Country. Teriform stories are all about possible futures. Flyover

Country is a window into one of those worlds, one that may seem unpleasantly familiar.

Here's Tim with an excerpt of that story now.

Walk to the Foxcon CCA Joint Correctional Manufacturing Facility takes me about 20 minutes on the interstate.

Traffic is pretty much non-existent, apart from the cabaless trucks that draw from me as they pass,

kicking up clouds of pale dust that scour my eyes with grip.

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