Author : S. 'Hrekka' Clough

The launch chamber decompressed, the escaping air flushing Will's Swarm from the Carrier like so much flotsam. His sixteen Swarm were joining others who were launching from the Colichemarde and her two sister ships. His visor highlighted each ...

Author : J. S. Kachelries

We had been in Antarctica for two months studying the alien spacecraft. It had been discovered a month earlier when a portion of the Ross Ice Self caved into the sea. Based on the thickness of the ice covering the ship, we estimated that it was buried ...

Author : C. Hale

Shortly after the perfection of the gravity lens telescope, astronomers had tracked a celestial body twice the size of Earth and calculated its trajectory as intersecting Earth's orbit. A full year of recalculations and simulations had all yielded the same results. ...

Author : David Zhou

"Have a good weekend, Mr. Lark," he said, scooting his chair underneath his desk and shuffling his papers a bit.

"Don't stay too late, y'hear?"

He laughed, and shook his head. Smiling faintly, he grabbed his bag and started for the door. He had a ...

Author : Jim Stitzel

The bag of chips was all but empty, just a few crumbs left in the bottom. He shook the bag, bouncing it in his hand, so that the niblets would fall together in the corner. There were so few left - and he wasn't one to waste anything - so he tilted the bag to ...

Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Unsol remembered his twelfth birthday, remembered his fathers face alight with pride as he read aloud Unsol's draft notice. 'You're going to be a pilot, Unsol.' His father beamed 'You'll be the most valuable commodity in the Corps.' Thirteen years ...

Author : Benjamin Fischer

“The Americans’ new weapon is unstoppable, sir.”

The Admiral grunted. “That’s a bold claim, Commander Caswell,” he said, shifting in his deep leather chair before the wall of screens. “Care to expand on that?”

“We ...

Author : Michelle Pitman The Janovian language is pure torture on the back of the throat, at least for those who haven’t learned it from birth. If we weren’t being paid for doing these language classes, I don’t think there’d be many of us left on the course. The pay is good, too good ...

Author : Catherine Preddle

Jericho sighed contentedly as he eased himself into the contoured leather recliner of the Virtual Library booth. He’d spent most of his lunch break scouring the Multi-Mall for an empty VL booth and was determined to make the most of the remaining ...