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    Invasion of the Robot Santas
    Invasion of the Robot Santas
    Invasion of the Robot Santas
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    Invasion of the Robot Santas

    By Cora Buhlert

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    No one ever expected the robot apocalypse to begin in the little town of Brighthaven. And no one ever expected it to involve murderous robot turkeys and their even more terrifying brethren, robot Santas that fire laserbeams from their eyes.

     

    However, Brighthaven's finest are ready to tackle any robotic holiday menace that might come their way.

     

    Two interlinked holiday stories of approx. 6000 words by Hugo winner Cora Buhlert

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPegasus Pulp Publishing
    Release dateDec 22, 2022
    ISBN9798215097663
    Invasion of the Robot Santas
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    Cora Buhlert

    Cora Buhlert was born and bred in North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi. Cora holds an MA degree in English from the University of Bremen and is currently working towards her PhD. Cora has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles and poetry in various international magazines. When she is not writing, she works as a translator and teacher.

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      Invasion of the Robot Santas - Cora Buhlert

      The Robot Turkey Apocalypse

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      No one knew where they came from. After all, robot turkeys are not exactly the sort of thing you’d expect to bring the world or at least the small part of it that was the town of Brighthaven to its knees. In fact, robot turkeys not the sort of thing you’d expect — period.

      Robot cats, robot dogs, robot wolves, robot dinosaurs, sure. All of these things make sense in a twisted way. But robot turkeys? Why would anybody build robotic versions of very strange looking birds that humans only domesticated for their lean meat and then only ate once a year anyway? Truly, it makes no sense.

      But that’s the problem with real life. Unlike fiction, it doesn’t have to make sense.

      And so the robocalypse was brought about not by artificial intelligences using our smart cars, smart homes, smartphones and smart toasters against us. It was not brought about by man tinkering with things man should not tinker with. Its harbingers were not lumbering steel giants bristling with weapons or sleek chromium plated humanoid robots faster and stronger than any human could ever be. Instead, it was turkeys. Robotic turkeys with deadly beaks and razor-sharp tail feathers they could fire like flechettes with deadly accuracy.

      No one ever figured out who made the robot turkeys. They had obviously escaped from a lab somewhere, but who had built them and why? A mad scientist was the most likely explanation, if only because you’d have to be mad to build robot turkeys. But no one had any clues regarding the identity or motive of that hypothetical mad scientist.

      Some thought it was a Communist plot, but then they were the sort of people who always thought of a Communist plot. Some thought it was aliens, but then they were the sort of people who always thought it was aliens.

      However, the most likely explanation was that someone had created the robot turkeys for Thanksgiving, maybe as an eccentric garden ornament or to appear in a parade or a play or a theme park. Only that something had gone horribly, terribly wrong somewhere along the way.

      As explanations went, it was farfetched, but no more farfetched than the existence of

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