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Pioneers

By submission | February 14, 2013
Author : Bob Newbell "Starship Tsiolkovsky, this is the Haven Space Station calling. Please respond." Captain John McCormick arose from his command chair. He and the other five recently reanimated members of the Tsiolkovsky crew were utterly shocked. The Tsiolkovsky had been launched ...
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Coffee, Tea or Me

By Duncan Shields | February 13, 2013
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer Janice faltered in the dark apartment. It wasn’t hers. She was sobering up, the guy was snoring, and it was time to go. She had her panties in her pocket and her shoes were dangling from her hand by their thin, blue straps. It was time to head ...
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The Hand You're Dealt

By submission | February 12, 2013
Author : Sierra Corsetti Marie snuck a glance out of the corner of her eyes as the card dispenser beeped and dropped three slips of plastic-coated paper into her waiting hand. She dropped them into the front pocket of her leather overcoat and swished out of the pharmacy, merging into ...
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Indefatigable

By submission | February 11, 2013
Author : Algor X. Dennison "Are you out of your mind?" Captain Lurren screamed at me. She clung to a broken strut over the glowing red chasm where solid deckplate had been a few minutes earlier. I wanted to tell her that she looked like the crazed one in that position, and that she was ...
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The Pod

By submission | February 10, 2013
Author : Leah Hervoly I have been drifting along for the past seven hundred and eighteen years. Things are starting to look the same. Puffy red nebulae over here, collapsing white dwarf over there. Once in a while I see a galaxy get sucked into a supermassive black hole like some kind ...
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Plan B

By submission | February 9, 2013
Author : Thomas Howe The sleep pod hissed. He awoke full of dreams of empty fields and dark corridors. He sat up, his feet hitting the cold floor. He walked naked to the console, checking the monitor. “When am I?” The computer clicked and whirred. One line of code appeared: ...
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The Practical Problems of Interstellar Empire

By submission | February 8, 2013
Author : Bob Newbell Trimet VII was the Emperor of the entire Epsilon Eridani star system. Of course, he didn't know his solar imperium by the name a human celestial cartographer had given his sun. To Trimet VII, his star was designated Benzaprin and his planet, Benzaprin Prime, was ...
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Based On A True Story That Hasn't Happened Yet

By Clint Wilson | February 7, 2013
Author : Clint Wilson, Staff Writer “Calm down earthling, we already have most of your recorded history. We believe we know what has happened. You are now an extremely endangered species, so we will not punish you for your crimes.” “So you acknowledge that what I did was a ...
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Rebel

By Duncan Shields | February 6, 2013
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer I worry my family. They say I think too much. They say I rebel too much, ask too many questions, tamper with the mental blocks we have installed. They say the police will come to take me away, punish me, wipe my brain, and send me away. I know ...
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Resurrection

By Stephen R. Smith | February 5, 2013
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Baxter could still feel the heat from the vials in his hands as they vapourized into the atmosphere of the room, still smell the fuel, even through his respirator in the moment the weapon discharged full into his back. The pain was ...
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Jewels and Blood

By Julian Miles | February 4, 2013
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer The drill slides sideways like it’s got a mind of its own, so I straighten up to lift it clear of the crystal. My vision blurs and I pause to gauge which of the two reasons applies. With a bark of laughter I realise it’s the good option: too much ...
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Red

By submission | February 3, 2013
Author : Christine Rains All they cared about was the color red. When we landed on blue-gray gaseous Kepler 3, the squirrel-like beings greeted us peacefully. The Keps were primitive and living in small farming communities. They'd never even seen the full spectrum of colors, but they ...
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The Energy Slug

By submission | February 2, 2013
Author : Chad Bolling They looked like large slugs with reptilian skin and no shell. Besides their lack of defense mechanisms, the species had many more obvious traits that made it easier for predators to catch them. However, through some miracle, one these creatures alone could supply ...
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Air Rafting

By Patricia Stewart | February 1, 2013
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer If the Skipper found out what I was about to do, he’d probably dock me a week’s pay, but it’d be worth it. I figured with the gravity generator off-line for the next four hours, I could probably get in three runs. I popped open the access panel ...
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HomeJet

By submission | January 31, 2013
Author : Morrow Brady The beauty of my living room design was the simplicity of it's vacuous two storey cube. High with expectation, I entered the freshly printed room for the first time. What I saw made me stagger. A spaghetti junction of alienesque shapes swarmed frozen throughout ...
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A Defect

By submission | January 30, 2013
Author : Philip Smith Most of the bots you see in diners are the ones that serve the food. We have one but it was a bad decision on my part. Real waitresses give you a smile and make you feel welcome. Automota makes a place look cheap. When it breaks I won’t go to the trouble of ...
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Hate the Syn

By submission | January 29, 2013
Author : George R. Shirer The girl is naked. Long limbed. Gorgeous. He can smell her from where he sits, in the back of the club, where the shadows are thickest. She struts across the stage, hips shaking, breasts swinging as she works the crowd. Bottle-blonde hair flies around her ...
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Soul Stripping

By Duncan Shields | January 28, 2013
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer He was wearing the recording helmet when he died. John DeMangus, out like a light, rest in peace. It was an embolism that took him out. He was by himself in the studio, and had the helmet recording. He had noticed a background hiss in the first ...
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