U

Colloquy

By featured writer | May 3, 2013
Author : Bob Newbell, Featured Writer The aliens came in a spherical spaceship that would have been at home on the cover of a 1930s pulp sci fi magazine. Their ship was nearly a thousand miles in diameter and could easily be seen in orbit with the naked eye. For three weeks the human ...
Read More

Warriors

By Duncan Shields | May 1, 2013
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer This lab is armoured and very far underground. The strikes didn’t penetrate down here. That was six years ago. I’m the only survivor of the top-secret government installation designed to create robot soldiers. I succeeded and my designs went into ...
Read More

Balance of Power

By featured writer | April 30, 2013
Author : Bob Newbell, Featured Writer "Welcome to our asteroid belt," said the Congolese captain of the AFS Seretse Khama. Your asteroid belt, thought Dragoslav Ibrahimovi?. Yet the captain of the BAS Peter the Liberator had to admit that his African Federation counterpart had a ...
Read More

By The Light Of The Silvery Moon

By Clint Wilson | April 29, 2013
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer The thundering blasts of the plasma cannons hammered us relentlessly like meteor-sized fists, as the Zalkanthian war ship maintained its attack position directly outside our cockpit bay windows. There was no escape. Their bizarre hive-mind intellect ...
Read More

Peacefully Co-exist

By submission | April 27, 2013
Author : Bill Drummond We three, the only survivors of the wrecked starship Buoyant, are Captain Bertrand Kelmond, Sergeant Rosalind Druley and me. The Captain has suffered a head injury, leaving him confused and ineffective as the leader. I am not happy with being assigned his ...
Read More

Behavior Modification

By Patricia Stewart | April 26, 2013
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer The shrimp trawler ”Treadin’ Water” plowed through the calm gulf seas on its way to Baratana Bay. Clasping the wheel in his massive hands, Captain Noyent eyed his son skeptically. “So, your mother and me spend half our life’s savin’s putting you ...
Read More

Frontier Justice

By featured writer | April 25, 2013
Author : Bob Newbell, Featured Writer "Surrender your cargo and you can leave unharmed." The message comes over the radio the moment I come out of a space fold maneuver inside the Gliese 832 system. It's a fairly old trick. There are a finite number of space fold nexuses and of that ...
Read More

Interference

By submission | April 24, 2013
Author : J. R. Hargenrader When Mission Specialist David Branson joined the Solarian Defense Force, his romantic ideal of “see the universe, learn advanced skills, and encounter alien civilizations” never meant hiding on the far side of an asteroid, cleaning regolith-covered optics, ...
Read More

The Loaner

By submission | April 23, 2013
Author : Dave Rigby Steve sat in the beige waiting room idly flipping through channels on the tv, not stopping on any for more than the few seconds of allotted free viewing so as to not incur an automatic charge. At home he had a pretty decent entertainment package with no overrun fees ...
Read More

Runaway

By featured writer | April 22, 2013
Author : Bob Newbell, Featured Writer "Ensign, report!" yelled the captain over the ring of klaxons and the groans of metal fatigue that filled the bridge of his starship. The young officer didn't respond. His eyestalks were fixed on the kaleidoscope of stars streaking past on the ...
Read More

GraviTech Inc.

By submission | April 21, 2013
Author : Stephen LaGioia I stand anxious and apprehensive in the corner of the hallway near the top of my front door. I crawl to the peephole and squint through it, surveying the empty sky below me and blades of grass protruding upwards, my eyes frantically searching for help. Cars ...
Read More

Magnification

By submission | April 20, 2013
Author : Ulrich Lettau “This has never been done before.” I blurted out, watching the massive instrument continue to magnify the fluorine atom image. The gauge rapidly passed the billion power mark and continued toward the 1,750,000,000 times, the theoretical maximum. “Dr. Cronus, you ...
Read More

Warped Drive

By featured writer | April 19, 2013
Author : Bob Newbell, Featured Writer The President of the United States smiled as the press photographed and video recorded her handshake with the Un'Vidik representative. The tall, spindly alien showed no emotion. How could it, encased as it was in its stark white encounter suit? The ...
Read More

The Burgarii Collective

By Desmond Hussey | April 18, 2013
Author : Desmond Hussey, Staff Writer Darwin was wrong. The Burgarii Collective is living proof of that. Watching the massive arcologies floating above the old city is surreal – mountains literally drifting among the clouds. I am reminded of a text book found deep in the library’s ...
Read More

Cheddar Plain and Mordeck

By Duncan Shields | April 17, 2013
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer Mordeck and Cheddar Plain were field-stripping their weapons on top of Concourse B. No one came by here. They talked and smoked openly. Eyes in the sky were a thing of the past. They perched there on an I-beam, ten stories up from the concrete ...
Read More

Special Ops

By featured writer | April 16, 2013
Author : Bob Newbell, Featured Writer "Can you see him?" asked the SWAT team commander. "Yes, commander. I'll stream the video feed to your display," said the CASO officer. A live video of a disheveled, wild-eyed man of about 20 years clutching a girl who appeared to be about 14 ...
Read More

Random Story :

Today’s Story