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Are machines taking over? When societies use machinery to eliminate work, does it free consumers to realize higher callings or merely make them dependent on machines and less able to care for themselves? If each new convenience means greater dependence, is the consumer a slave? "The tool is the slave of the being. The being is the slave of the machine." This is a Samerac saying. Sameracs are against machinery, a stance that makes them outcasts. The Telefax Box is a social and political satire depicting this clash over technology. No element of modern life, from spy ware to gene pools, is...

Book I of the Telefax Trilogy, The Telefax Box, ended with the first fully functional machine, capable of reproduction, mating with a person. Is this a Frankenstein monster? Book II, Aurora Rising, opens with the product of that mating; Aurora, the first half-machine. Or is she the first half being? What are the consequences of Frankenstein reproducing? Is the galaxy ready for this? The galaxy's anti-machine contingent known as Samerac contains a pro-machine element isolated within it known as Dodis. When the Dodis adopt the first half-machine/half-being as their titular leader, how will the...

The Telefax Trilogy reaches a climax with Telefax Acclaimed. A collision of forces that has been gathering throughout the first two books bursts out. While some openly worship machinery and others flee from it, society becomes both more dependent on machine aid even as the strains of the society become evident and everything begins to break down. How can the innumerable and complex contradictions depicted throughout these books be resolved? While lives and traditions are destroyed, there is a struggle to make sense of the chaos from varying perspectives. Is there a place in the galaxy for the...