Author: David Barber Mr Wells having already written a popular scientific romance about time travel, publishers seemed to think my own literary efforts on the subject suffered by comparison. They also warned my title would be a hindrance to commercial success. One editor ...

Author: Daniel Rogers I'm to be sacrificed tomorrow. I knew I wasn't going to like this planet, but when your fighter decides to crash, it doesn't ask how you feel about it. Gline-doth is a class C Primitive. I'm a little rusty on my planet classifications, but I believe ...

Author: Majoki Some swear by King James. Some will only settle for King Lear. But give me The Prince. Machiavelli all the way. His flavor. Assertive. Unrelenting. Unforgiving. Unapologetic. That’s the power we seek in this day when all is utopic and bland. A fine cut of ...

Author: Emily Kinsey I pull the string from my son’s arm. It’s long—seven inches, at least—and shimmers like spun silver. Exhaling slowly, I put down my tweezers and rub my eyes. That last string took too long; the tail almost got away. If nothing else, pulling strings is ...

Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer He’s going to watch it again. Unbelievable. “Any chance of a coffee?” The stare is a definite ‘no’ with an attempt at being hard. “You can ask for details. I was there.” Plus I have complete recall thanks to my action audit unit. I got ...

Author: Alastair Millar I should have said something. Today, I know that—but back then, I was still young and stupid. So I’m recording this now that I’m old and hopefully wiser, for all the good it will do. I was desperate when I signed up for the Settler Corps, with ...

Author: K.T. Frasier When my sister dies, she leaves a nebula in my brain. An upside-down Pillars of Creation right where my temporal lobe used to be. They discover it when my fiancé brings me in for an MRI, worried when I seem to know where all the elements in the universe ...

Author: Dart Humeston “The last time I felt like this, I woke up in the year 1981.” I explained to the attractive woman after I appeared out of thin air in her kitchen. “I sensed static electricity in my body and materialized in a video game arcade in Miami,” I ...

Author: GW LeCroy Tokyo lay far below, smothered in a century-old, neon-streaked smog. A constant wail rose into Asami’s room from somewhere in the haze, sharp and setting her on edge. But above, a thousand shooting stars blazed orange-yellow trails across the navy sky. ...

Author: Daniela Tabrea The soft roar of the circulation pumps bid her a warm welcome. Maybe not warm, but sterile. Exactly what she’d been looking for. Jaimee hoped this would be the last time she ever moved apartments. Her previous place was substandard, to say the ...

Author: Majoki Still puzzled, Mya Kirin fixated on the sign: Last Casket Company. The moniker didn’t make much sense, but she’d always felt a calling to look into the unexplained. To push for answers. She wished it could’ve been a real job. A job she was paid to do. A ...

Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer The com lights up. Sally: Bradford, New Britannia, Earth? What the? How long has it been? I stop rushing and let my AIde handle it. “I’m supposing you’ve not heard-” “You have reached the residence of Chris Utten. This is Alice, his ...

Author: Sam E. Sutin Sometimes, acronyms can be misleading. For example, artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial insemination (AI), while both artificial, do differ in some very important ways. In my defense, with technology evolving so quickly these past few years it ...

Author: Mark Renney The rumours began some twelve months ago or so and the idea quickly took hold that there was an unseen presence under the Dome, a ghost haunting the Fields of Research. These murmurings were persistent and frequent with everyone telling the same tale, ...

Author: Deborah Sale-Butler It was a great place to live. Tons of space to spin out a web. And the local food was spectacular. I mean, you could get anything in that neighborhood: dragonflies, blowflies, sometimes even a big, fat, juicy moth. De-lish! I can honestly say, up ...

Author: Eric San Juan She reached down for the water bottle at her side, remembered it was empty only when she brought to her lips, sighed, and hung her head. “I should have stayed in the city.” She knew she was wrong about that, of course. The city is where it all ...

Author: Hillary Lyon The Holographic Wildlife Museum was a major draw for the city, with its representation of Earth’s extinct and endangered animals. Vera loved the idea of viewing facsimiles of majestic creatures in their natural habitats, even if it was through ...

Author: Jared S Moya A sharp pain pierced Darya’s side. His knees buckled as he drew his hand to the wound and toppled to the ground. His shoulder slammed into the packed dirt of the dry riverbed, his teeth clacking against each other. Rolling onto his back, he noticed a ...