Man and Machine: 7 (Defending the Future)

The plan had been to un-man the battlespace replacing flesh and blood with steel and carbon fiber. Machines both remote-controlled and autonomous A.I.s would fight and be destroyed in the name of freedom; sparing the troops at the cost of the nations treasure.However as with any arms race the opposing sides technology eventually catches ups to yours resulting in the need to put lives back in harms way on the frontline; to deal with and adapt to the unknown as only humans can.With stories by Brenda Cooper Bud Sparhawk Jennifer Brozek Ronald T. Garner Aaron Rosenberg James Chambers Nancy Jane Moore Patrick Thomas Jeff Young Eric V. Hardenbrook Robert E. Waters Anton Kukal and Danielle Ackley-McPhail and an afterword by the late CJ Henderson.