A/N: I made a poster with this idea for my wife who loves coffee but isn't a sci-fi fan. But then I thought "That could be a book cover", so here we go; at least now I've figured out how to actually put a clickable book cover art with a story.

"Logan 5, do you identify this object?" The computer voice, although soft, was insistent as it showed an image on the large screen.

"Negative. Question: What is the object?" Logan 5 sat in the chair and looked at the object on the screen. It was a small oval shape, brown in color, and mostly smooth with some irregularities about the size of his fingernail.

"The object is a coffee bean. It is used in the production of the beverage coffee" the computer explained as it zoomed and rotated the image.

"Question: The coffee I drink every morning is made from a small pill?" Logan 5, like most of the people that he knew, enjoyed the coffee they received out of the beverage dispenser every day without really giving thought to its origin. The important part was his day wasn't quite right unless he had some first thing in the morning. Lately, he had gotten an occasional "system error" message when making a request for the drink. "There isn't a problem with the coffee is there?" He tried to fight the beginnings of a growing worry.

"Your mission is to leave the city and find coffee beans, Logan 5. Please...find more coffee beans. Forget about the runners, no one will want to live past 30 if we don't get a new supply. I...sorry, I can't compute properly without it."

"Question: You're a computer, why do you need coffee?" This was bad, without coffee the dome's civilization would fall apart. Certainly having the central computer unable to think would only hasten the chaos.

"Part of my structure is organic. How do you think I keep all the people happy? Nonstop, around the clock 'I want this, I need that'...sorry, I'm really irritable right now. Please Logan 5, go find coffee. Use the runner network to leave the dome and go outside."

Logan 5 had moved from worry into a near panic. "Question: What is outside?"

"Just quit with the questions and go get the coffee! Get the object 'coffee bean' out of the materializer behind you to take as an example. Find Jessica 6, but don't tell her about the coffee. Mobs will tear each other apart if they find out we're…almost… out..." The computer started to sob.

This was going to be a very bad week, he thought; he already had a dull throbbing in his head.

Logan 5 backed out of the room.