Indifferent to all this, the hired day laborers shuffled onward.Įven with all the dormitory showers running, Cassie could hear the screams of her fellow workers outside. Occasionally in anger or desperation they tried to climb the barricades and rush the armed men who, like them, were now and could only ever expect to be anonymous gears in the machinery of the world. At the sound of the gunshots and the smell of the gas, the workers ran in all directions.

Sometimes, when the striking workers became too unruly and threatened to overrun the barricades, the security guards fired off tear gas and rubber bullets, and, as the workers by now knew, in close proximity rubber bullets were not so different from regular bullets. The workers called them scabs and pelted them with rusted safety bolts, which flew high above the heads of the security guards and only very rarely hit their targets. They crossed the picket line, ignoring the striking workers who rattled the barricades. The bus pulled up to the factory parking lot and day laborers got out. Read on if you dare.Building 253, San Francisco Naval Shipyard. Here you'll find post-apocalyptic nightmare-scapes, ghost spaceships, and murderous time travelers. But each of these stories takes some speculative element and turns it up to a horrifying degree ( what if phones, but too much?). Science fiction is a big, messy genre with a lot of stories to tell. Of course, not all of these books involves robots or space or laser guns. So here are a few of the spookiest science fiction books to read if you're looking for a speculative scare. When original goth teen Mary Shelley first wrote Frankenstein, she kicked off a whole genre of mad scientists and technology gone way, way wrong (and also large corpse sons who just need a hug). Sci-fi and horror have always gone hand and hand. As far as I'm concerned, the scariest horror fiction out there involves weird wormholes, rogue A.I., and creepy aliens floating about in space (where no one can here you scream and also there's very little atmosphere and it's dark and just generally unpleasant). Look, you can keep your haunted houses and your clown-shaped murder demons.

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