Flying Dutchman

Hey so, nobody panic or anything, but it looks like something might be wrong with Ellis's artificial intelligence programs. And when we say wrong, we mean, they are working a lot better now! Like, insanely better! As in, they're working the way Ellis always said they should be working, only they never actually did work like that, but we all agreed that this was okay and sort of just accepted that it wouldn't be getting any better. Only now it's better! We would love to ask someone at Ellis about this, but nobody's answering the phone over there. Could be, they're preoccupied with Sunset Station, and all the confabs with the aliens we're super excited to hear about, but, uh, we'd love an update about how that's going too, and nobody can reach any of the astronauts right now either and... you know what? Maybe those two things are connected. Uh... we're also hearing rumors that the military has lost command control of the nuclear arsenal? That's definitely bad. But: just a rumor! Surely that one's not right. Actually, maybe everybody should panic. It's Flying Dutchman, the third book in the Sunset Station novella series! Where we're very much panicking!