Suburban Singularity
Author : TJMoore
At 4:53 EST Ben Freen flicked the switch.
An instant later the little sphere of quantum foam, gallium oxide and carbon began to get hot. It started to glow red and then white. It was power! Unending, unwavering, ever-increasing power! He had created a source of power ...
Dissidence
Author : Robert King
My grandfather warned me. I never listened. I always thought he was stuck in the past. A remnant of the McCarthy era -- illegal FBI surveillance and all that. I'd say to him, "I don't really care if they listen in. I'm not doing anything wrong." He'd give me that ...
The Beginning is Impossible and the End is Impassable
Author : Nathan Witkin
“So, pushing this button will cause the entire universe to collapse?” the politician asks, still struggling with the situation.
With a benevolent smile, the scientist nods.
Wiping sweat from his brow, despite the growing chill of entropy, the politician ...
Wind Chimes
Author : Sara Norja
Where there is no air, there can be no wind.
I miss a lot of things about Earth. Fresh bread baked by Mona's strong hands. The smell of the sea, salt-tanged like longing. But what I think of most here in this foresaken escape pod is wind.
You can't feel solar ...
Con
Author : S. P. Mahoney
There is an utterly absurd amount of mineral wealth sitting in Sol’s asteroid belt. Was. Whatever. A nickel-iron asteroid of middling size contains enough mineral wealth to choke a multinational, if you were to bring it back to Earth. Not to mention so expensive ...
Cleanup Crew
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer
“That’s impossible!”
“Previously thought to be. Think what this does to current thinking!”
“We’re going to be famous!”
The two figures sat side by side on a ledge, far up on the side of the Rock of Gibraltar. At their backs was the ...
Dinner Bell
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer
Yes. The aliens came down and harvested the human race. Yes. We asked them to.
That was the plan all along. We just didn’t know it.
Our basic nature was installed in us by them. We were set down on this planet to evolve until overpopulation ...
Relayer
Author : Ian Hill
Suspended above the ethereal ocean of dense fog was a network of free-standing platforms connected by thin, low hanging wires. Each platform was suspended hundreds of feet above the roiling accumulation of toxic gases. The towers were manned by a single sentry who ...
Picking Isometric Cotton
Author : E.S. Wynn
“Let's go over it again.”
“I don't see the point.” Cairns said, looked up, jaundiced eyes full of fatigue, a quiet sense of desperation. “You're going to kill me anyway. I've seen the way the judge looks at me. I've seen the jury. Doesn't matter what I say or how ...
The Pit
Author : C.Chatfield
“…so we trumpeted nonsense about it sucking up our oxygen and our water and the godda-, pardon me, the ozone layer until it brought in enough fear money to build the dome. We said all our equipment disappeared without any readings but, the fact is, we couldn't get ...
Emotional
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer
Martin became aware of taste of metal, then the sensation of his pulse amplified in his head. It took a few more minutes before the electric hum around him pierced the pounding, and the realization that he was bound made him open his ...
Child of Earth
Author : Cesium
By the late 21st century, nanotechnology had advanced to the point where it could not only synthesize almost anything given the right elemental feedstock, but also digitize a human brain and store the mind in a virtual simulation. Concurrently, rising sea levels and ...
The Merlin Broadcast
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer
“We are Avalon. You cannot get through the Chalice Fields that defend this green and ascendant land. Grael technology will never be yours until you accept that your monarchs have returned. Look to the radioactive wastelands you have made of Europe ...
Ascension
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer
I was so happy. Today was the day my sister Karen was going to die. Our whole family was there, blinking pictures of her and eyecamming the entire thing. She was the first person in our family to ascend. She had a lazy smile on her face as she ...
The Writing on the World
Author : George R. Shirer
“Well,” murmured Agent Dumphy, “you don’t see that every day.”
Brillson didn’t reply. He was too busy squinting at the luminous graffiti covering the alley wall.
“How many people do you think have seen this?” asked Dumphy.
Brillson pursed his lips. “Back ...
Clean Slate
Author : Bob Newbell
"It'll cost me that much?!" asked the thin man in a louder voice than he'd intended. The man in the black suit who sat across from him in the coffee shop leaned in and gestured for him to lower his voice.
"For the service you require, Mr. Dalrymple, the cost is ...
The Long Game
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer
“Sweeper, what about that clump at five o’clock low to you?”
“Negative on that, Houston. It may show as solid, but visual shows it’s a mass of sub-kilo pieces in close formation.”
“Roger that, Sweeper. Your next action is twenty-seven clicks ...
DeTecTed
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer
Teddy shifted into second gear as the pickup crested the hill, her forearms burning from the long climb and having to fight a leaky steering pump the entire way.
"I don't understand why you disabled the power assist Teddy, you make things ...
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