Sugar Zero Robot Shaman tells the story of robots struggling with becoming human and their human allies. Somewhere between the dreamed end-of-days film apocalypse from Sunday school and waking to find oneself in a country no longer resembling the place you were born. The idea of Sugar Zero Robot Shaman as a novel has always been a derivative work, a composite of all things post-apocalyptic including all the usual suspects. Watching the Road Warrior film, the post-Apocalypse fiction genre like the films Blade Runner and the Terminator changed so many things. Influences from books like Gibson's cyberspace Neuromancer, the Carlos Casteneda books, as well as comic book influences like Elecktra. The wealth of experience in the most sci-fi job ever as a bike messenger in Boston. Add in a dash of the female super assassin ala Dark Angel and Naked Killers and Sugar Zero Robot Shaman was born. However, Sugar Zero Robot Shaman would never quite become a novel. Instead it is presented as a fragment from a future that never was, and never will be.