Vonnegut’s 2BR02B: Soft, what utopia through yonder window breaks?
Reading Time: 10 minutesWhat would you do if you could choose a future for humanity? Would you choose one of abject squalor, or would you make some small sacrifice for the betterment of future generations?
A Winter’s Morning
Reading Time: 19 minutesThe monster began to come towards him, its massive arms at its sides, and its trunk-like feet sliding along the ground.
To Soar Like Rockets
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe only thing missing was the magic.
The True Story of Bloody Bones
Reading Time: 10 minutesIn her bed was found a messy pile of blood-stained bones and skull and jaw fragments.
Anderson’s The Man Who Came Early Shows Aliens Among Us
Reading Time: 35 minutesPeople struggle to connect. These struggles resonate today more than ever. In modern media, we find ourselves confronted with viewpoints and even ways of life that we find alien.
Unknown Empire
Reading Time: 11 minutesHe threw back the covers to look to see what the problem was into his lower limbs which were covered with fire ants!
The Thing in the Woods
Reading Time: 14 minutesThe cat’s mouth cranked wide open just as the rock had, the top of her head falling backward until she stared upside down at us with glassy eyes.
The Lady Who Would Not Die
Reading Time: 9 minutesShe treads softly on the blood-soaked ground, disturbing the crows that came to feast.
Asimov’s Youth! Shows Us the True Aliens
Reading Time: 35 minutesThe conflict between generations, stability and energy, has special in the current events of our time.
Seen
Reading Time: 23 minutesWhen I opened my eyes a little wider and tilted my head just so—to see, really see—I noticed the fairies dancing between the floorboards of my bedroom.
Evacuation: Earth
Reading Time: 4 minutesEvacuating Earth was arguably the most difficult thing ever undertaken by humankind.
James Blish’s ‘One-Shot’ explores limits of technology
Reading Time: 17 minutesInstitutions fail us. Destruction awaits us around every corner. These fears are as true today as in the 1950s, when James Blish wrote his short story “One-Shot.”
Dead Men Walking
Reading Time: 16 minutesMy helmet melted away, revealing what should have been a skull, but instead showcased thousands of minuscule cables, flicking lights and tiny gears, latched to my brain and wiring me into the armor’s motor functions. It had become a part of my body.
Dr. Garbanzo Writes the First Draft
Reading Time: 6 minutesThere was a quick, frantic splashing, an ascent of bubbles, and then nothing.
Decoy
Reading Time: 4 minutesTesca watched as Braygin was enveloped in a blue orb, then winked out of existence along with a little section of tunnel floor he’d been standing on.
The End
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe end of the world? Seriously?
Annihilation Plan: (Mars Wars Book 3)
Reading Time: 9 minutesIf you happened to have an illegal telescope, or proxied your galaxynet address well enough to pirate your way to satellite images of Mars, you might glimpse a damaged but operational Mars Orbiter 1, alive with ‘rebels. If so, you’d be witnessing Mars Wars.
Virtually Yours
Reading Time: 12 minutesIn a world of seamless surveillance where virtual and real coalesce in a teasing dance, love is the trickster
Disgruntled
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn email subscriber becomes disillusioned and frustrated with the effects of a blog’s magical advice.
Once, A Soldier
Reading Time: 17 minutesLove is an engine that transcends.
I Am Forced to Write to My Neighbor About the Beast
Reading Time: 3 minutesA woman is forced to write to her neighbors about the beast she keeps secretly in her house.
I Am Reanimated
Reading Time: 11 minutesAn ambitious mother reanimates her son’s corpse.
Dancing A Balanced Weave
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is only a slender, fragile thread between hope and despair, happiness and fear.
Mother Worked Nights
Reading Time: 5 minutesA boy struggles to come to terms with his absentee mother. His father insists it’s due to her busy work schedule, but something doesn’t seem right.
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