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I Want To Go

By submission | July 25, 2011
Author : Timothy Marshal-Nichols

“I haven't time,” Ujala said, “where is it?”

She set the House Bot on the kitchen table and stared at it intently. It looked like a small upside down metallic tea cup, pure white and hovering millimetres above the perfectly smooth table ...

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The County Agents

By submission | July 24, 2011
Author : Eric L. Sofer Gwen and Naomi came in from the vegetable field and sat down with two large cold iced teas in Naomi’s parlor. “Naomi, I’m so glad to see you and your neighbors doing so well after the Great War! When our supplies ran out in the Survival Vault and we ...
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Your Child in Space

By submission | July 23, 2011
Author : Alia Gee While the care and feeding of your child in ideal non-planet-dependent conditions has already been covered in Dr. Krugheimer’s “Happiest Baby on the Space Station” holoseries, I feel it is important not to neglect those new parents who are in more extreme ...
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Oversight Governance

By submission | July 22, 2011
Author : Martin Sumner The matter of the Checks & Balances Office in dispute with Collins-Chapter was ordered onto the Administrative Ladder to be passed up to State Query. Deputy van Aerts stamped the case file, the Oversight Governor-General struck his gavel and signed ...
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Last Wishes of Customer 593

By submission | July 21, 2011
Author : K. J. Russell A Somme Corp. product designated Android 593 walked through the rain along Intercontinental Freeway 7 at precisely 1:25:42am. 1:25:43am. 1:25:44am. The Android’s connection to Somme Corp. provided it with a translocation sense that guided it along until ...
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151

By Duncan Shields | July 20, 2011
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer Blood dripped off of its thick horns under the arena lights. On the ground beside him were the bodies of the six last tigers from Earth. There were deep slashes over his torso that were already scabbing over thanks to the gladiator ...
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Krystal K. and the Janitor

By submission | July 19, 2011
Author : James Reinebold Filbert swished his mop over the steel floor. A Whisko 5000 beauty: everything you could want in a cleaning device complete with neural net dirt processors, scent ejectors, and partial sentience. He twirled it over the sizzling fluids like a ...
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To Andromeda and Beyond?

By Patricia Stewart | July 18, 2011
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer It was the year 254,051. It was odd, actually, that nobody seemed to care anymore why they started counting form zero 254,051 years ago, or why a “year” was 365 “days” long, or why each day had ten “hours,” or why each hour had 100 ...
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TX-24

By submission | July 17, 2011
Author : Adam Sprague February 4, 2049 Ava flew out of bed like one of those spring loaded jack-in-the-box things she used to hear her grandmother talk about when she was younger. The Texas sun had just begun to cast its morning shadows as she grabbed her E-Comm and turned ...
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War of the Grand Alliance

By submission | July 16, 2011
Author : Michael F. da Silva “And that is how we will neutralise the Entente’s forward operating positions, my colleagues.” The Georgian style meeting room was located on a human-built Orbital Cylinder over Mycenae. The size of the cylinder was large enough that the ...
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Cut Short

By submission | July 15, 2011
Author : Michael F. da Silva Being dead, I wasn’t expecting much conversation at the café. I had loaded the environment as soon as I was uploaded. The red carpet and round lamp-lighted tables stretched out to infinity in all directions. The Viennese coffee that had melted ...
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Cryo Me a River

By submission | July 14, 2011
Author : Ossian Ritchie Frank Henstein stepped into the Huvver lift and was propelled upwards through the daily debris of handywipes and food wrappers that bobbed in the impossible antigravity lift field. The office stinks of fake pine and ice-cream aftershave. Frank was ...
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Atmosphere

By submission | July 13, 2011
Author : Charlotte Lenox She watched with tears in her eyes--they were going to fight again, this time too close to the spaceport. A massive, spidery one with corded, violet-blue legs stepped down into the valley, avalanches of snow following in its wake. The wall of windows ...
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Artifact

By submission | July 12, 2011
Author : M.J. Hall “Is this it?” the young man asked. “The evidence to prove your thesis?” “Yes,” she said, with quiet conviction. “I think this artifact might be the key to the entire society. If it’s intact. If it still functions. If the scans read it right . . . ...
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Star

By Duncan Shields | July 11, 2011
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer “It must be because they have such a short life,” chittered the softly glowing centipede pilot, easing back on the throttle near the viewscreen as it maintained a discreet distance from the planet. “With almost no time to experience ...
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Mercy

By submission | July 10, 2011
Author : Julian Miles The cell was spartan yet comfortable. In the functional frame chair, the figure sat with the plain dark blue jumpsuit hanging on him like a drape over furniture. He looked up with weary eyes as the door opened and a well-dressed figure entered. He ...
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Credits Please

By submission | July 9, 2011
Author : Vankorgan She’s not too young. Maybe twenty, twenty-one. My type exactly. She’s got a firm body that raises the folds of her sundress in less than innocent ways. I watch as she looks at me across the bar. Giving me the look of a much older woman, the kind that knows ...
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Long Shot

By Stephen R. Smith | July 8, 2011
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Jack shifted uncomfortably against the handcuffs, the straight back of the chair too wide against his shoulder-blades, the wood irritating through the thin fabric of his blazer. "A little presumptuous thinking you could waltz in here and ...
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