Black Infinity, Renegade Robots Received in Mailbox

Actually the package was on the porch floor, beneath the mailbox. It wouldn’t have fit. And a large package it was (well, for a magazine anyway), two copies of a book-thick publication in a padded envelope at just over 225 pages each.

The magazine is the Summer edition of BLACK INFINITY (cf. March 22, 9, et al.) with my part of it taking up only four pages, starting second in the lineup (opening editorial excepted) on page 43. Some other stories, of course, are longer. The magazine’s theme is RENEGADE ROBOTS — given its size, it could almost be thought of an anthology on its own — with both old and new fiction including classics by authors like Robert Sheckley and Philip K. Dick. Plus two “Special Features” (one a reminiscence of “Robby the Robot”), Departments, and closing the issue an eight-page comic.

My story in this is itself a reprint from some time back, “Scavenger,” originally published in FANTASTIC COLLECTIBLES for November 1994. It’s a noirish tale of a future city with its human population gone, but with various robots left behind, hoping to keep it — and themselves — as best they can against a time its original builders might return.

And there’s 221-plus pages more, more on which can be found, with ordering info as well if desired, by pressing here.