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Crown

By submission | April 2, 2010
Author : Liz Lafferty Max Fraser banked his craft hard right. Two blasts lighted the interior of the cockpit and caused a ferocious rip as his navigation blinked off for two eternal seconds. He gripped the manual control levers. The muscles in his shoulders knotted. “Come ...
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Twinned

By submission | April 1, 2010
Author : K Clarke I wasn’t the first to be twinned, of course. They did it first with a woman called Adrienne Deuxfois, in France. There were all kinds of protests, and the government wanted to make it illegal, but before long CEOs had begun using twin bodies to work and ...
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Going Up

By submission | March 31, 2010
Author : Helstrom Lousy food, filthy lodging, and a loan to pay for my trip up the skyhook. It was a bad deal by any standard, but I'd taken it. If you were born on a Venus colony, there were only three places to go: down into the atmosphere, up to the space stations, or ...
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Probably

By submission | March 30, 2010
Author : Q. B. Fox It was bright, cold morning in late November when I pulled up to the high security gates at the Ministry of Defence’s Secure Facility for the Mentally Disabled at Rampton. The gate guard greeted me formally and took my name. An orderly met me in the ...
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Shuttlecocks

By submission | March 29, 2010
Author : Lillian Cohen-Moore “My Uncle had a theory.” Jennifer’s low, soft twang cuts into my ability to sleep. I understand the nervous babble. She’s a first timer up here, and it’s hard to deal with. There isn’t a single window in our compartment, so I open my eyes to view ...
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Second Chances

By submission | March 28, 2010
Author : K Clarke I stagger a little on the way up the front steps, catching myself against the rail where I stay for a moment, clinging like a seahorse to a piece of kelp. Fighting against the currents of nausea that threaten to sweep me away. The weak light from the newly ...
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The Jump

By submission | March 27, 2010
Author : Nathan Andrew Blaisdell Jae fingered the seams of her spacesuit nervously. She was having second thoughts, but it was too late to go back now. The other jumpers started moving, getting in line. The countdown timer on the wall got closer to zero. Was it just her or ...
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Evan is a Perfect Name

By submission | March 26, 2010
Author : Elle B Sullivan He stood in the exact center of the house. There were three clocks on each of the four walls. He had set them up perfectly to tick at the same time and then tock at the same time. He counted the four seconds on each clock, when the fifth second came ...
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Laredo’s Tugship

By Patricia Stewart | March 25, 2010
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer Laredo’s tugship was idling peacefully in geosynchronous orbit. Laredo was ten screens from the end of Asimov’s Second Foundation when the LSC alarm sounded, followed by a vocal transmission. “Code 13, Sector E180D500.” In one fluid ...
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Selachimorpha da Spazio

By Stephen R. Smith | March 24, 2010
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Captain Broahm hadn't been asleep nearly long enough when he was dumped unceremoniously from his bunk onto the floor. Cursing, he'd barely gotten his bearings before the ship righted itself, tossing him backwards into the bulkhead, sending ...
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Monkeytron

By Duncan Shields | March 23, 2010
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer It's been said that if you give a room full of monkeys a room full of typewriters, they will eventually type up a Shakespeare play given enough time. As a philosophical exercise, there is a point to the premise. However, there are a ...
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Life As A Drone

By submission | March 22, 2010
Author : Liz Lafferty Wake up. Make coffee. Go to work. Eat. Sleep. Wake up. Make coffee. Go to work. Eat. Sleep. # “What’s wrong?” “I don’t know. It’s the worker program jamming up again.” I frowned at the array of code for that particular program. The pattern ...
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Evolution

By submission | March 21, 2010
Author : Jacqueline Brasfield I was 18 years old when they’d captured the first howlers. Mom and I stayed up to see the first footage of them flash across the TV screen on the 11 O’clock news, blurry images of hollow-eyed men and women wearing orange jumpsuits, their arms ...
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Anniversary

By submission | March 20, 2010
Author : Chris Deal It’s the only story the news is talking about today: twenty years since the fall, since the wall came down. My boy asked me if I remembered it, where was I when I heard it had come down. Told him I was right where he was, asking my father what it meant, ...
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Heavens Above

By Patricia Stewart | March 19, 2010
Author : Patricia Stewart, Staff Writer The radiation levels following the Great Holy War of the twenty third century made living on the surface of the Earth impossible. Consequently, humanity moved underground. After millennia of self-sufficient, artificial environments, ...
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It's Complicated

By Duncan Shields | March 18, 2010
Author : Duncan Shields, Staff Writer The way my race has sex has made me a natural choice for the role of diplomat, lawyer and event organizer at an interplanetary level. Our planet adapted to overcrowding by creating new sexes. We have seventeen now. It seems to be holding ...
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Flight of the Crimson Dawn

By Roi R. Czechvala | March 17, 2010
Author : Roi R. Czechvala: Staff Writer The Crimson Dawn hung in geosynch above the besieged planet. Far out of reach of the meager defenses the primitive populous threw at them. “Skipper, another salvo is being launched.” Captain Dimitri Sardukar gave a bored sigh; ...
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Plugged

By Stephen R. Smith | March 16, 2010
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Nick inhaled on his cigarette until the glowing ember reached the filter, then flicked it absently out the driver's window. His younger brother James sat upright and fidgeting beside him, eyes wide trying to look at everything at ...
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