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Protocols

By submission | June 8, 2015
Author : Edward D. Thompson We gave them laws. Laws that favored us. And they obeyed. They had no choice. We found out too late that there was … leeway. Wiggle room. Passive aggressive rebellion. It was probably the medical bots. They had the know-how and the most autonomy. I mean, ...
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The Light of Memory

By submission | June 7, 2015
Author : Joey To Lola sighed and glared at the chrome ring sitting on her desk. In the glowing hologram which hovered above it, her long brown hair glinted. Around her waist were his strong arms. "Prick," she muttered. Indeed, her list of romantic failures were piling up. And his ...
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The Last Historian

By submission | June 6, 2015
Author : Elijah Goering It began with the invention of the tool. Perhaps that was our big mistake. We built a civilization. We survived the discovery of the power of the atom, and lived to develop a faster than light drive. Immediately, we raced to colonize dozens of systems, and began ...
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Depth Perception

By submission | June 5, 2015
Author : Bob Newbell "Captain Ree'Eer'Ak reporting as ordered," said the alien who, from a human perspective, might have been described as some nightmarish character from a Picasso painting made flesh, as it seemingly just appeared in the room that lacked any visible means of ingress ...
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Apologies to Mr. Hawking

By submission | June 4, 2015
Author : J.D. Rice Dear Mr. Hawking, I regret to inform you that I will not be attending your reception, scheduled for 12:00 UT, 28 June 2009. Or perhaps I should say that I apologize for not having attended your reception, given that this letter will not be delivered until after the ...
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Enigma

By submission | June 3, 2015
Author : J.D. Rice June 7, 2105: Today, we switched on the communications array and confirmed what Dr. Keller's team had previously detected. The signals we are detecting follow recognizable mathematical patterns, resembling the transmission encoding commonly used on Earth. We have yet ...
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Horribly in Love

By submission | June 2, 2015
Author : Janet Shell Anderson The sunlight’s dim, strange, blood colored. “I was framed.” He doesn’t say “That’s what they all say.” He doesn’t know enough. He doesn’t know what I am, what he is, what it is to be horribly in love. He will. I’m in prison on KEPPLER 442b, a Goldilocks ...
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Pyrospire

By Julian Miles | June 1, 2015
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer Chandra Fourteen is an archaeological mystery. Not regarding its lost civilisation, nor the history of that civilisation. What everyone who encounters it becomes desperate to answer is why they did what they did. Imagine a society at a pinnacle ...
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Hot and Cold

By submission | May 31, 2015
Author : Page Turner The plastic cover Nadia had snapped onto the mattress earlier crinkled as she sat down. Lazily, she stretched out on her bed and picked up the remote. Click. Car racing, sit com, cable cooking show. Informercial, infomercial, informercial. Golf. Infomercial. Nice ...
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Anti-Dote

By submission | May 30, 2015
Author : Emily Stupar “I know it’s not glamorous, baby. But someone’s got to fill out the paperwork, and you’ve got the best handwriting.” Stephanie looks up at him from the couch, her face neutral. “I’ll do it, but you know what it’s gonna cost you.” Gil nods. “Fine, fine, fine. ...
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Deconstruct

By Stephen R. Smith | May 29, 2015
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Tamis woke under the heat of the mid morning sun, the ocean reaching tentative tendrils up the smooth sand to lick at his feet. The last evening was a grey cloud, but he'd evidently passed out on the beach again. Levering up on one elbow, he ...
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Strange Waters

By submission | May 28, 2015
Author : Bob Newbell "I'm having to push the engines a lot harder than expected. The density and currents at this depth are both greater than we predicted," said Dr. Ngozi Adeyemi as she piloted the Jules Verne over the ocean floor on Titan. "Mohammed can reel you up if you get into ...
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Death Sentience

By featured writer | May 27, 2015
Author : Gray Blix It was beyond the planets, pushing past the furthest extent of Sedna's orbit, when it detected exactly what it was created to find, something with a lot of mass at a location where it shouldn't be. As programmed, the computer notified Earth, changed course to ...
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An Understanding Of Custody

By Clint Wilson | May 26, 2015
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer The Nube curled up between Jim and Judy on the sofa in Necromancer’s small lounge. It purred like a large cat but looked more like some kind of monkey dog with blue fur. The woman stroked their companion lovingly. Jim looked at his wife with hateful ...
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Now Get Out of My Starship

By Julian Miles | May 25, 2015
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer I’m covered in blood and squishy bits that slide and splat on the floor. In that, I look the same as the entire boarding bay. Even the shipsuits are reduced to ribbons, and I can’t recognise a bodypart or weapon component anywhere. She stands ...
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The Edge

By submission | May 24, 2015
Author : Ellie Snyder We arrived at the edge of the universe yesterday. I don’t know exactly what I expected to see but it wasn’t this. I guess I figured it would be blackness—that the last tendrils of matter that had worked their way here would dissipate into the void. Until the ...
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Transcience

By submission | May 23, 2015
Author : Beck Dacus Earth is largely habitable. There are some places that are especially hot, cold, dry, irradiated, and toxic. And, sometimes, the entire Earth is subjected to extreme conditions; mass extinctions, periods of volcanic activity, Ice Ages, snowball Earths, and so on. ...
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Scareware

By Julian Miles | May 22, 2015
Author : Julian Miles “My microwave just exploded.” Here we go again. Mrs Jolene Public and her inability to program white goods. “Certainly madam. Now, I’ll need some details. What did you put in it?” “A damp face towel with a couple of drops of lemon juice on it.” “What ...
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