Tom Lichtenberg
2011
From their humble beginnings as inventors of a handheld device with basic mind control capabilities, the tech-folk behind World Weary Avengers, Incorporated moved on to develop such gadgets as one capable of recording an individual's very personality and replaying it back into another person. Devices with even more sinister potential are in the pipeline. Only a small band of software quality assurance engineers stands between these audacious inventors and your very soul. Would you trust such as these with the future of mankind? I didn't think so. In 'World Weary Avengers', the beginning of the end, old friends Tom and Chris decide to change the world by a radically simple means. In 'Ledman Pickup', one of Tom's rare new devices is let loose in the wild, as the gadget seeks to make its own way in the world on its own terms. 'In Constant Contact' continues the saga of inventions gone wrong, when always-online 'professional friends' lead to nothing but trouble.
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