The Smith
Copyright© 2019 by Shaddoth
Forward
Imagine a world with a plethora of superpowered humans in a universe similar to ours. Good, bad and a bit of both. Mostly both, since humans even at their best or worst, were still human.
In Smith, my few hundred thousand word, multi chapter book; A Device Master takes on a new apprentice to pass on his knowledge, whether that specifically chosen young person was willing or not.
A toaster is a machine, a flying toaster that reminds you to flip your eggs is a Device. Super Science. They are things imagined, not to be invented for years, decades or centuries, which a select few can and do build. Some useful, some not so much. Man being Man, weapons would always be associated with Devices.
Iron Man’s Armor is just one example of such a Device. One that everyone could instantly recognize as something that did not belong in the current technological era, yet did, in the comics of yore.
This is not a tale of Superheroes or the Device Master, but of the student and her growth from a sheltered, naïve teen, to a strong young woman; told from the Master’s perspective.