Author : Michael F. da Silva Being dead, I wasn’t expecting much conversation at the café. I had loaded the environment as soon as I was uploaded. The red carpet and round lamp-lighted tables stretched out to infinity in all directions. The Viennese coffee that had melted ...

Author : Charlotte Lenox She watched with tears in her eyes--they were going to fight again, this time too close to the spaceport. A massive, spidery one with corded, violet-blue legs stepped down into the valley, avalanches of snow following in its wake. The wall of windows ...

Author : M.J. Hall “Is this it?” the young man asked. “The evidence to prove your thesis?” “Yes,” she said, with quiet conviction. “I think this artifact might be the key to the entire society. If it’s intact. If it still functions. If the scans read it right . . . ...

Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer “It must be because they have such a short life,” chittered the softly glowing centipede pilot, easing back on the throttle near the viewscreen as it maintained a discreet distance from the planet. “With almost no time to experience ...

Author : Vankorgan She’s not too young. Maybe twenty, twenty-one. My type exactly. She’s got a firm body that raises the folds of her sundress in less than innocent ways. I watch as she looks at me across the bar. Giving me the look of a much older woman, the kind that knows ...

Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Jack shifted uncomfortably against the handcuffs, the straight back of the chair too wide against his shoulder-blades, the wood irritating through the thin fabric of his blazer. "A little presumptuous thinking you could waltz in here and ...

Author : Chris Abernethy The Singularity; dawn of the AI age, runaway machine evolution, the rapture for nerds... whatever. I hate to be the one to tell you poor H Sap. guys this, but you missed the whole damn thing. No really; history passed you by ten years ago without ...