Saturn Slingshot
Reading Time: 18 minutesPirates attack a solar sail above the rings of Saturn.
Space Sci-Fi
Mothermind
Reading Time: 12 minutesAmong war’s victims are the soldiers and those who care for them. Nothing in our shared future will change that, though some of the details will be new. What will be the reality for cloned soldiers?
Goodbye, Nathan, Goodbye
Reading Time: 10 minutesIt’s a little boy’s last chance to leave the planet. Can he talk his mom into letting him go?
Honeypot
Reading Time: 5 minutesA derelict spaceship turns out to be a trap for a space pirate and his very unusual copilot.
Native in Arbors
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe emigrants to Planar6 have survived the voyage from Earth via conversion to semi-sentient fungal forms, a process that is reversed upon arrival. The trouble is, one of the crew prefers to stay the way they are…
The Skies Our Home
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe funeral was hard. But the thing that helped me smile through the tears was counting the times Tom had sat on top of hotter pyres and lived.
I Will Paint the Night
Reading Time: 26 minutesCan Allii come to grips with the pain her family has inflicted on a nation and heal a land wounded by centuries of injustice, hate, and fear. (And find the killer of her beloved stepmother).
The Wreck of the Lorelei
Reading Time: 21 minutesTrapped in an experiment in faster-than-light space travel, the captain of the ship searches for what went wrong.
Counterfeit
Reading Time: 4 minutesA quick collision of rich space junk collectors, and an expert counterfeiter.
A Sliver of Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesMaybe the meaning of life won’t be found among the digits of pi, but life can still depend on them.
Chef’s Special
Reading Time: 4 minutesDavis was the species’ third victim on the Pathfinder XII. I liked Davis, he called me a Culinary Magician.
On Our Own
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn a dead planet, two prospector friends find two huge statues with a secret.
Fingal’s Cave
Reading Time: 17 minutesA rogue scientist’s intrepid search for life becomes a metaphoric and existential journey of the heart that explores how we connect and communicate—with one another and the universe—a journey intimately connected with water.
The Last Time I Saw the Yellow Skies of Venus
Reading Time: 5 minutesTerraforming Venus is a dream come true, but what about the people who already live above the clouds, eking out a living through technology and grit? The pioneers-on-balloons are forced to relocate, leaving everything their families have built for generations.
The Reality Star of Relativity
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen the Helikon requires a young, fresh face, to keep the people back on earth interested during its long interstellar voyage, who better than Reality Star LaVi Elphan? Though there are some surprises in store, for her, and the PR agent who sends her.
Send in the Clones
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe victim’s head had been blown clean off, that much was obvious. The body lay on a table in the morgue, the harsh scent of antiseptic trying and failing to cover the rusty smell. I looked over at my partner, Wolf-776f6c66 and sighed. “Why am I here?”
There wasn’t much crime on Callisto Colony, and what there was tended to be pretty minor. Vandalism, drunk and disorderly, sometimes a domestic disturbance. All in a day’s work for me, the only full detective on the colony. A corpse was unusual, true, but this case? Open and shut.