Living Augmented is a dystopian, sci-fi novelette and psychological thriller. The globe outside is chilly, hostile, and virtually lifeless. Human life depends on sophisticated, technological living compounds. The people who don’t possess them, once driven to robbery and murder, are believed to be long since dead. Alden, a genius of physical and computer engineering, spends his time tending his hydroponics backyard, maintaining and enhancing the complicated systems essential to survival, and, in turn, continually refining the enjoyable life he’s created with his wife, Laurel. On a time like any various other, everything is following Alden’s plans until the power begins to fail…