Scapegoat

Author : Ian Hill At first I thought we were just going on a trip to see the holy city. We, my father and I, boarded an opulent train replete with red carpet and finely crafted oak furniture. The immaculate standard of the church lined the sides of the train, and it charged through the ...

Storm Clouds

Author : Harshavardhan Rangan It was the day the clouds came alive. We've always thought of them as gentle puffs of water vapor. We were wrong. They weren't gentle, and they'd had enough of us. Our understanding of the water cycle had one small, fatal flaw. We assumed the clouds had ...

Boundary’s Edge

Author : TPKeating It took me just a few minutes to unpack and activate the robot. “How can I assist you, friend?” she asked, softly. Friend? I could leave her on for a year, for five years, ten, learning and developing and simply being, and then simply shut her down on a ...

Siren Song

Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer My name is Clancy. I am a semi-autonomous security program. I guard a warehouse. I am the guns, the cameras, the traps, and the locks. I am the lines in and out. For me and my kind, boredom leads to emotion. This is a weakness. It makes us ...

Life in the Wild

Author : Bob Newbell The pup frolicked along with his two bigger brothers in the synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula. As they played, their bodies soaked up ...

No Portraits

Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer The normally white bulbous head of the spacer became yellow as he indulged in triple Rotten Roxathdons on the rocks over ...

Djedi's Device

Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The sun clears the mountains and shines across the sylvan landscape, it’s rays sparkling from the dew on the grasses, bringing ...

An Important Message

Author : Alex Sivier The large door at the bottom of the chrome craft opened with a faint hiss and white clouds billowed out into the cool Swiss air. A ...

Eve

Author : Sean A Murphy Waking up in the dust. System check, full functionality. Scanning environment. Laboratory, minor damage. Functional assemblers and VI ...

The Switch

Author : Vince H. “Come with me.” “We’ve already talked about this. I would never do that to myself.” “Honey, we can live forever. Together.” “Live? Is that what you call it?” “Of course. Your brain remains completely intact, and you keep all of your memories… your entire ...

Thirteen Cities

Author : George R. Shirer The cities float, a mile above earth and water, drifting across the surface of the world. Their positions remain constant to each other ...

Pulped

Author : Bob Newbell Captain "Jet" Connors of the Planetary Alliance and his sidekick, Cadet Lackey, burst into the secret base of operations of their archenemy, Dr. Sinistral. ...

The View from the Base

Author : Jim O'Loughlin It’s like flying a kite, Sheila thought. In a way she was right. Just a thin strand of carbon nanotube stretched out of the launch ...

A License to Kill

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