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Freedom

By featured writer | November 28, 2011
Author : Clint Wilson, Featured Writer The eighteen foot tall robot stared down at the park worker in pleading disbelief. Sam jabbed the giant's leg with his broom, "Come on, off you go. You can't stay here anymore!" "But I don't comprehend this request. My place is here in ...
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Shadows

By submission | November 27, 2011
Author : M. J. Hall We wait. We the shadow-women, the marginalized, the dispossessed. We wait, for our time of power is near. Long ago, the elite decided that natural means of reproduction were far too messy for those of great wealth and status. As the clone banks churned ...
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To Boldy Go

By submission | November 26, 2011
Author : J. S. Kachelries This will be my greatest invention! Of course, my invention bar is not set very high. The phaser thing sort of worked. It was able to set the living room curtains on fire, but I got second degree burns on the palm of my hand when the damn thing ...
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Good Boy, Max

By Stephen R. Smith | November 25, 2011
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Major retrieved the chewed tennis ball Max had laid at his feet and loaded it back in the meter long, ice-cream scoop of a throwing arm he was using to launch it. Max bowed and jumped, eyeing the ball with keen interest as Major cocked the ...
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CTRL V

By Duncan Shields | November 24, 2011
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer My name is Control V. My boss calls me Paste. I am a clone. I work for the government. I am a secret agent. There are a few of me kicking around. I don't know how many. I am given orders that I can't disobey. I get through metal ...
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Gal

By Julian Miles | November 23, 2011
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer “What do you mean you lost her? This is Central, the most surveilled planet in the galaxy. How do you lose a two meter tall three armed gal?” Gens Adamant had the grace to look crestfallen, and so he should. He may be from a long line of ...
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Time Skipper

By featured writer | November 22, 2011
Author : Clint Wilson, featured writer I open my eyes and gasp aloud. Where... is this? What... what day is... time is... where am I? Who... who... who... who am I? Although my entire awareness is a swirling multitude of uncertainty, I know I am looking up at the sterile ...
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Freedom Someday

By submission | November 21, 2011
Author : Huw Langridge Carla's hand retreated from the ON switch while the media wall flickered to life. The software programme went through its final initialisation stages, with lines of configuration code working its way up the screen. She waited. ADAM appeared on the ...
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Bushel for the Candle

By submission | November 20, 2011
Author : Martin Berka Tom stood meters behind the ethicist, armed to where his teeth had been until they encountered grenade shrapnel two years ago. She knelt in the alleyway, engrossed in some insect or small plant ? it was not his job to understand. He could end this right ...
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A Future in a Test Tube

By submission | November 19, 2011
Author : Eugen Spierer "Why do you want to work for Bosch paper mills?" The question echoed distantly in my ears. I knew it didn't matter what I answered, my future was being decided as we were speaking based on the blood sample I had donated five minutes earlier. "I think ...
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The City

By submission | November 18, 2011
Author : Cesium It is only from one of the higher towers, the myriad smaller buildings laid out below and higher ones gleaming in the distance, that the City's infinitude truly becomes intuitively and not merely intellectually apparent. But even in the mist of a cool ...
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The Martian Solution

By Patricia Stewart | November 17, 2011
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer A torrent of sea water gushed from the six meter in diameter penstock into the Sirenum Ocean, Mars' largest body of water. Twenty-eight minutes earlier, that sea water had been in the South Pacific Ocean, before beginning its long ...
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Introdus

By Duncan Shields | November 16, 2011
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer The Introdus happened in late 2021. Seven hundred thousand time travelers showed up around the world. They showed up on fire. They showed up in clumps in the larger cities and by the singles and pairs in rural areas. Most of them were ...
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Terror Trade

By Julian Miles | November 15, 2011
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer He stepped over the bodies of the last two assault teams and walked swiftly to just below the camera blister on the ceiling. Waving a hand, he spoke calmly. “Hello Justin, I’m Agent Dessall. I’ve come to chat about what we can do to end ...
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The Man Who Saved The World

By featured writer | November 14, 2011
Author : Clint Wilson, featured writer "I wrestle with it every minute of every day. However please let the record show that every precaution was considered when it came to keeping it humane. No one ever knew for even an instant what hit them. One second we were a planet ...
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The Legion of the Dead

By submission | November 13, 2011
Author : Andrew Bale "Five minutes, General." "Thank you, Gunner." Anywhere else in the fleet she would be an impossible escort. Her dull-black skinsuit was topped with a spiked leather jacket, her hair gelled into liberty spikes, her face painted like a skull. She still ...
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Still Nothing

By submission | November 12, 2011
Author : M. A. Goldin "Anything?" "Bacteria, some multi-celled organisms, but nothing complex. Nothing sentient." Captain Dalmar nodded, and the technician's projected image blinked out. She stood alone on the bank of a river. It rushed, boisterous, from the mountains ...
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Sons and Fathers

By Stephen R. Smith | November 11, 2011
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Stuart lost his footing scrambling over the shattered garden wall and fell, hard. As he struggled to his feet, his head still ringing from the tumble his pursuer caught him up and knocked him back down harder still. "You frickin bastard," ...
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