Rover and Me
Author : Roi R. Czechvala, Staff Writer
For the hundredth time, I glassed the area. Nothing on visual, nothing on thermal. I bumped the gain until individual grains of sand stood out in stark detail a thousand metres up the broken road. Nothing. Winter was setting in and game ...
Wolf-Rayet 104
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer
Doctor Letum stood on the bridge of the Galaxy Explorer, staring at the forward viewscreen anticipating his first up-close look at Wolf-Rayet 104. It was not easy getting to this point, he mused. Ten years of filing applications, dozens ...
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Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer
There are those amongst us that still refer to it quietly as genocide when they have the courage to bring it up at all. Never in any official capacity, only at interface groups and multitap fileshares, and only then after a few jolts of ...
Drilling Through Infinity
Author : Clint Wilson, Featured Writer
"So this is it?" I asked, more than just a little depressed and disappointed.
"Well what did you expect?" asked Grrrrshnk. The giant veins in his bulbous blue head pulsated visibly through his space helmet.
"I dunno," I replied. I ...
Walk Softly
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer
Roscoe dimmed the lights in the living room and then powered up his suit. In the floor to ceiling mirror beside the stone fireplace he could admire how truly daunting a warrior he looked. From the heavy platform boots on his feet to the ...
Library Loan
Author : Suzanne Borchers
Bea stared through the 10 mm thick window at the metallic mining equipment covering the gray landscape. One more plate to wipe then she'd be able to read and escape this. She'd be in a colorful world filled with fascinating sights and enchanting ...
The Showdown
Author : David Nutt
It took all of Jimmy J's concentration to lock out the invading minds trying to pry the secrets from him. The first attack was dealt with easily, the Thulian from the belt. It was straight forward frontal lobe probing. Brute force, horribly off balance, ...
Eight Years
Author : Tim Rouse
It's been eight years. I suppose it had to happen sometime.
They've been here longer than that, of course. Just shy of a century, they say. But eight years ago they revealed themselves, thousands of people enslaved, with aliens in their bodies, and ...
To The End of Time, Or Lisa
Author : Damien Krsteski
"One more and you're done," the bartender informs me. I nod, then take a large sip from the bottle.
Due to the nature of their work, bartenders tend to know certain things about people. Fortunately, the multiversal collapse that would lead me to her ...
Cold, Sweet Tea
Author : g.a.harry
Such heat. Wave upon wave. Through air thick as tapioca. Brutal oppressive. Under the awning, the shade makes it worse. Adding weight, piling on heavy. A bead of sweat starts to form on his forehead. Welling up till gravity pulls it down the side of his ...
Old Times There Are Not Forgotten
Author : Roi R. Czechvala, Staff Writer
Captain William Dietz shuddered in revulsion every time he mounted his aircraft. It was a tiny lifting body. Its short, sleek swept wings blended seamlessly into the fuselage halves. He lay ventrally in an exact Dietz shaped depression ...
Refuge
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer
The Chaots dance the K'chana K'chan as the Haalen vaults scream. When they finish the ancient steps of the Cornered Circle, the vaults will channel years of accumulated energy through their engineered nervous systems and another haul will ...
The Community
Author : Cech
They try not to let them know that they aren't human. They say it's for their own good; they wouldn't be able to handle the reality. I don't know, though. I mean, if they knew from the beginning, they weren't told anything else, why wouldn't they be able to ...
Next Time
Author : Damien Krsteski
Nurse Anne's botoxed face creases into a contrived expression of worry but her tone remains bizarrely casual, "I'm sorry Mrs. Adrian, but as you can see for yourself, we're unable to start therapy on the fetus."
Caroline gets visibly agitated. "No," ...
Star Light, Star Bright
Author : Roi R. Czechvala, Staff Writer
It wasn't much. A rocky asteroid honeycombed with branching tunnels and storage chambers. Though predominantly a rocky body, it contained enough nickel and iron to shield its twelve inhabitants from hard radiation.
Though not the most ...
TrueMate
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer
I hope I like her. I hope I like her.
The Truemate service is just one of the programs. There's Perfectjob and Opti-health as well.
It's no utopia but people the world over agree that this system is the best so far. There isn't much in ...
Write
Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer
The room is dim as I seal the doors and windows against the polluted mist that descends most nights. I wave the low-lights on as I pass to check on Linda. She's sleeping peacefully so I wander back to the den, collecting a can of coffee on ...
Pretty Boy
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer
The police bulletins all called him 'Pretty Boy', but those that preferred their atoms in the form they were currently coalesced called him 'Mr. Floyd', or simply 'Sir'.
His reputation had followed him from planet to planet, system to ...
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