Reading Time: 16 minutesAn adventuring duo seeks the legendary, magical dagger of Shellafen. This weapon is embedded in the troll that killed Shellafen.

Reading Time: 24 minutesAt a moon colony where Mars Orbiters are manufactured, a damaged android is saved from the recycle shredder by an introverted teenager with vague ambitions of ion boarding on Mars. Against Trent Wagner’s own substantial logic, he accepts the challenge from the older kids to fix the bot and enter it into the Foot Race, a three mile competition across the lunar surface. Things get interesting as the bot displays behaviors and images of a past human life.

Reading Time: 27 minutesRandall Garret weaves a fantastic tale with the suspense building throughout. What is precognition? Is it something that is a charlatan’s hoax or does it fall into the fringes of science?

Reading Time: 4 minutesAn apprentice talecrafter constructs her first magical tale.

Reading Time: 14 minutesIn an alternate Cold War, America is armed with a fleet of manned nuclear ICBMs. But all is not well, and every night, the rocket man dreams of Moscow . . .

Reading Time: 17 minutesReporter Angela Ioane discovers the most promising new weight loss therapy in years has side effects no one is talking about.

Reading Time: 7 minutesThis is a dark SF tale about creating organ donors for those who can pay.

Reading Time: 23 minutesBy N.T. Narbutovskih The term “droid” has a special place in the heart of everyone who has a passing familiarity with science fiction. Mari Wolf coins the term in this quirky tale about robots, consciousness, and humanity. Wolf’s forecast of the rise of human-consciousness equivalent artificial intelligence has all the classic veneer of the Golden […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes“I feel like I left my mind on Mars. Even now, I can still hear the wind.” Rosie reaches over from where she sits on her rocking chair and winds her fingers around mine. She hasn’t changed a bit, despite the years I was gone. Her face is still every bit as bright and optimistic […]

Reading Time: 19 minutesRejected by her god and exiled by her tribe for reasons beyond her understanding, a young alien girl seeks the truth of her world and the faith of her people.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA dying physicist makes a desperate attempt to spare his daughter grief by flying into a black hole.

Reading Time: 4 minutesA grieving mother on Halloween and all she’s lost.

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat if your past was a lie and you had the opportunity to go back and change it?

Reading Time: 90 minutesIn this story set in her incredible Darkover universe, Marion Zimmer Bradley masterfully blends science and fantasy, psychological suspense, and action.

Reading Time: 5 minutesHumanity finally finds God, waiting in a nearby planetary system. Of course, that’s when the problems begin.