They took his life. They took his memory. They took his name, leaving him nothing. Leaving him a slave to Alicia Firelight Del Morgan. Leaving him a world that was both irrational and unnaturally strange. Walking one pace, it was the world and city he had known. Walking two paces, it was a world where giant spiders spun webs between the office buildings and skyscrapers. Old men like dragons lived in houses and gardens beneath the city's streets. Walking even farther, it was a world where people hunted poetry as if it was a thing alive. The fair and kindly folk had taken his heart and his...

What if your little cleaning robot started thinking for itself? What if it just didn't feel like following orders anymore? Who would you call? TOURIST: a robot that has suffered a higher computational malfunction. Tourists can be proven to be sentient and self-aware. Tourism is the act of a robot disobeying direct orders or otherwise behaving in ways contrary to programming. Tourists frequently modify themselves and have been known to harm people. TOURIST HUNTER: customer service field representative responsible for the capture and disposal of disobedient robots.