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Hardware

By Duncan Shields | June 9, 2010
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer I should have stayed in hardware. When you’re working on a tank or a missile array, you might feel bad if the project is considered a dead end and shut down but you wouldn’t feel guilty. You wouldn’t feel like a traitor. You wouldn’t ...
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Kitty

By submission | June 8, 2010
Author : Andy Brazil It’s difficult to know which will kill us first, the decompression when the shields fail or the radiation poisoning from the crippled engines. Either way, it’ll be messy and unpleasant. That’s why we decided to do it this way. Un’Shaqq was staring out ...
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The Long Sleep

By submission | June 7, 2010
Author : Richard "Zig" Zagorski Sloosh, slosh … Sloosh, slosh … Another hour had passed … one of how many Gerald could no longer tell. He’d lost count long ago, or at least he thought it was long ago; time was meaningless here. Each hour melted into the next, and a human can ...
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Chosen

By submission | June 6, 2010
Author : Charity Bradford Time moved toward a decision that would affect millions of lives. They needed more information and there was only one way to gather it. Someone must be chosen to be their eyes and ears. A human counterpart would process the emotions. Then the ...
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Two Wrongs

By submission | June 5, 2010
Author : Colin Edley Nobody likes the guy who told you so being right, especially when the three day bender you went on after the girl he said was no good meant you couldn't drag yourself out of bed except to phone him up and ask him to cover your shift. So here I am on the ...
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The Corbett Prominence

By Patricia Stewart | June 4, 2010
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer Faced with almost certain defeat, Earth Command committed 70% of its deep space fleet to a last ditch effort to conquer the Arcturian homeworld. But the Arcturians were well prepared, and Earth’s future was looking bleak as the ...
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Outlaw

By submission | June 3, 2010
Author : Q. B. Fox The music for News Night faded from the surround-sound speakers. Robert waggled an outstretched finger towards the sensor on the TV and, on the second attempt, dragged the window containing the security camera feed to one side. “Tonight,” the interviewer ...
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Here There be Monsters

By Roi R. Czechvala | June 2, 2010
Author : Roi R. Czechvala, Staff Writer The leaves of the overhanging canopy cast a restless pattern of light and dark on the forest floor. The soft trill of flying animals and the occasional flutter of branches as some unseen creature passed on it’s arboreal thoroughfare ...
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Trucker

By Duncan Shields | June 1, 2010
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer Our server’s arm whined with steam driven pistons as she set our drinks down. This was body modification on a new level. She must’ve been on eleven different kinds of immunosuppressants. She probably had a biotechnician on call to handle ...
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The Future Soon

By submission | May 31, 2010
Author : Neil Shurley “Will you just cool it about the jet pack?” It was all I could do not to shout at him. Barry’s daily tirade against the state of the world left me feeling nothing but tired. Ever since New Year’s Day he’d go off for at least ten minutes every morning ...
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Ding

By submission | May 30, 2010
Author : James Riley “Oof!” Miller grunted, raising the bar for John to take it. He exhaled deeply and sat up. John casually dropped the weight onto the maglev lifts and patted his friend on the back. “Think that’ll do it?” John asked. “Should. . .” Miller replied, tapping ...
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The Other City

By submission | May 29, 2010
Author : Cesium They were together when the city stopped. Their office perched atop a spire reaching up from the business district. Usually holoscreens afforded them a panoramic, unobstructed view of the city, or of whatever other landscape they wished to see, but those were ...
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What’s The Manual Say?

By Patricia Stewart | May 28, 2010
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer The shuttlecraft was careening out of control in the upper atmosphere of an uncolonized Class-M planet orbiting Alpha Mensae. Lieutenant Ashby reached down and touched the control panel to shut off the alarm. “What’s the Manual say we ...
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Our Title was “Revivalist.” We Performed “The Process.”

By submission | May 27, 2010
Author : D. Maurer “Coffee?” I asked him; we were watching a recovery procedure. This poor sap died well over five hundred years ago. He was the oldest meat popsicle we had attempted to revive. “Excuse me?” “Would you like some coffee?” “No. No, thank you.” I looked at ...
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Prophet and Lösch

By submission | May 26, 2010
Author : Q. B. Fox 17th April 2002, a concrete room, off an unmarked tunnel on the Northern Line. “How long were they down?” Simon looked up from what he was doing, and even in the dim light of the rack mounted servers I recognise the pinched expression. “12 days. ...
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News at Nine

By Roi R. Czechvala | May 25, 2010
Author : Roi R. Czechvala, Staff Writer “Okay, this is some of the best footage of the conflict we have seen. We spent a lot of money to have Johnson’s eyes and optic nerves replaced with the latest equipment including superconducting neural jacks, which can operate at higher ...
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Sovereign Earth

By submission | May 24, 2010
Author : Liz Lafferty Seven years I’d waited for my DNA match. Seven years of anxiety about what she would be like. Seven years of stress about whether she’d find me attractive and a suitable provider. Nineteen billion people inhabited the planet. I never understood why ...
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False Positive

By submission | May 23, 2010
Author : Mark Robinson “But, how is any of this possible?” Despite the scene she’s making all I can focus on is the pink tip of the pregnancy test strip - which we stock on aisle five - that she’s waving around in the air; watching the droplets of pink-tinted urine fleck ...
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