Hilde was young enough to remember playing Dragonslayer when she was little. She had pretended to fight off the drakes who ruled the kingdom with wooden swords and cardboard armor like the knights of old.  She was old enough to remember when the inventors made the first bolt-rifles to defend their villages and the Kaiser declared that they were free from draconic rule. She was wise enough to keep Maxmilian…

Final Operation Chauffeurs never had full shells of skin because it was more efficient to seal them directly to their seats. The wires inside of them ran directly through the driver’s seat, making the robots indistinguishable from the car. This made it harder to dismantle them to commit vehicle theft. It also made fixing chauffeurs harder. The older models tended to get their wires jostled out of place when braking…

How to Grapple with the Fact That You Will Never Be Extraordinary First, you must know that one day you will be asked a question you cannot answer. It does not matter how prepared you may be, or how many times you rehearse your reply to the unknown query: it is not a response to be spoken aloud. The next few steps will be critical to your understanding of what…