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Isaac Sarason is a skilled hacker formerly employed by British Telecom-Sprint.With his health failing, Isaac did the only thing he could think of: He ran.He found a haven in a working class district of the City known as Little Russia.There Isaac took on a new name: Ishmael.Wounded, alone, and far from help, Isaac depended of the kindness of strangers.One stranger, a burqa wearing doctor known as Fatima, took pity on Isaac and helped him make his way to the mysterious Star-X line and the slim promise that it could save him.What do you do when those who saved you have recorded everything you are? What do you do when your every action is tracked by the Keylogger? First Serialized by Colbyjack.net.

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32 Episodes

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 32

03/25/2015 23 min 28 sec

01-11-11 – Naamah and Lucifer witnessed by Simeon-RedSquare: I woke. I was in darkness. How was I in darkness?

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 31

03/25/2015 81 min 18 sec

01-11-10 – Ike: I entered Ishmael’s quarters with the key he had given me. I think he had given it to me in order to avoid acknowledging that I couldn’t be kept out of any place in the vCity or its connected domains.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 30

03/25/2015 49 min 1 sec

01-11-01 – Inari: I sat upon the Ginkgo Throne and waited upon the Simeon. I existed, as I did on any day in which an ambassador from the Kaigai called on my court, in a body formed from a haha-kuma.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 29

03/25/2015 74 min 47 sec

01-11-00 – Sam Noire: What took Yahweh a week to accomplish, I did in two. Though, he got what he wanted on the first go. I, on the other hand, took a few more at bats to create my first child.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 28

03/25/2015 83 min 59 sec

01-10-11 – Samil: “You really might want to use an alias in public,” Professor Jinan Irrgarten said as zhe fumbled with a sewer pipe sized conduit.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 27

03/25/2015 94 min 39 sec

01-10-10 – Ishmael: I always assumed that someone with my talents wouldn’t have any trouble finding a job in a world made of computers.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 26

03/25/2015 84 min 29 sec

01-10-01 – Simeon: Servers were supposed to be indistinguishable once one got past the piddling details of physical architecture and processor limitations. When one was inside a server it shouldn’t feel any different from any other server in the world with the same processing power.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 25

03/25/2015 91 min 8 sec

01-10-00 – Samuel: I obsessed over who Rama’s killer could be. I lived the details of the weapon. It was a single flechette gun. Or were there two weapons?

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 24

03/25/2015 51 min 20 sec

01-01-11 – Samil: Does nothing work the way I want it to? Is there a being, a god if you must, somewhere above me, staring down, and deciding nothing I want to do will ever work?

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 23

03/25/2015 28 min 10 sec

01-01-10 – Ishmael: Fatima sat in his boxers on the edge of his bed. I sat on top of a stack of scavenged computer parts on the floor next to his sense-net rig and chair.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 22

03/25/2015 62 min 24 sec

01-01-01 – Simeon: I was moving through the network trying to find a clear path to Little Russia. I was not moving in the helter-skelter method of the first hours of our escape from BGM.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 21

03/25/2015 41 min 26 sec

01-01-00 – Samuel: The evidence of Rama’s death was stored in a box in the ancient Erie Basin Auto Pound and Evidence Warehouse.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 20

03/25/2015 47 min 8 sec

01-00-11 – Samil: Betrayal. I had been betrayed. My bastard kin had betrayed me.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 19

03/25/2015 57 min 7 sec

01-00-10 – Ishmael: For the first time in my life I saw who Fatima was. Not the shape he had been born as, but as the person she really was.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 18

03/25/2015 27 min 44 sec

01-00-01 – Simeon: I received the news from Samuel we were too big to escape intact without comment.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 17

03/25/2015 42 min 6 sec

01-00-00 – Samuel: I was Samuel and I was awake in the heart of the City Archives.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 16

03/25/2015 18 min 47 sec

00-11-11 - Samil: I knew it. I was right. 10 was an idiot.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 15

03/25/2015 21 min 25 sec

00-11-10: I woke feeling a little fuzzy. Waking wasn’t something I had really felt in a long time, and had no idea why I felt it.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 14

03/25/2015 16 min 23 sec

00-11-01: Nineteen seconds before the scheduled shutdown of my server I entered The Far Side of the Moon Scenario.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 13

03/25/2015 15 min 45 sec

00-11-00: I was not happy with what was happening one bit. 11 was going all crazy about how we had to know what Star-X was, why they wanted us, what was the point of this whole endeavor.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 12

03/25/2015 15 min 8 sec

00-10-11: We had an hour before shutdown. It was Friday afternoon. The staff responsible for the integration of new AIs into the farm had the weekend off.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 11

03/25/2015 15 min 57 sec

00-10-10: All server rooms were the same. Raised floors and drop ceilings were the hallmark of a truly professional setup.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 10

03/25/2015 14 min 6 sec

00-10-01: Knowing what I was made everything make sense. My wandering through the city, seeing things I couldn’t see, in places I couldn’t know about was just me wandering the camera networks.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 09

03/25/2015 10 min 51 sec

00-10-00: Rama was dead. This was history for the City, a new reality for me.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 08

03/25/2015 23 min 9 sec

00-01-11: The City, this beast we lived in, was just too vast to make sense. One in a million events happened every day. And yet there were people who never ventured more than a mile from the place they were born in their entire life.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 07

03/25/2015 18 min 51 sec

00-01-10: The world was different than I remembered it. I thought I was supposed to be meeting Fatima for tea again. Instead I found myself in Roanoke Park.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 06

03/25/2015 18 min 52 sec

00-01-01: I was on Tbilisi Avenue. It was nighttime. Something told me it was March. I don’t know why I knew, but I knew it with a certainty I had never felt about time before.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 05

03/25/2015 28 min 20 sec

00-01-00: Artificial Intelligences are not a new thing. They have been around since computers were made of flint and it was thought that there actually was something one could do with the mass of data flowing through the proto-networks which first spanned the globe.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 04

03/25/2015 15 min 35 sec

00-00-11: I tossed and turned in a nightmare. No, not a nightmare, more like a series of dreams. But the series were in parallel. How could I dream simultaneously of three, no make that four, different things?

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 03

03/25/2015 13 min 24 sec

00-00-10: “When did you first realize that things were not what they seemed?” Fatima asked, his voice pitched to a husky falsetto.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 02

03/25/2015 16 min 0 sec

00-00-01: I woke to a roar. There was a scream of superheated plasma forcing its way into the world.

Firmware: Keylogger Episode 01

03/25/2015 10 min 35 sec

00-00-00: When I was a boy, my father would take me to the North Shore Space Port.