The Skies Our Home
Reading Time: 5 minutes The 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.
Space travel
The Thief of Pendír: Book 3 of The Book of Dreams series
Reading Time: 10 minutes Ro No Na, the thief, breaks into a gangster’s pleasure palace in Pendír, Bijoon, and ends up being chased by gangsters, revolutionaries, clones, and Agent Wood and the Z’Dhia, in the third volume of The Book of Dreams series.
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The Wreck of the Lorelei
Reading Time: 21 minutes Trapped in an experiment in faster-than-light space travel, the captain of the ship searches for what went wrong.
Fingal’s Cave
Reading Time: 17 minutes A 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 Reality Star of Relativity
Reading Time: 4 minutes When 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.
Annihilation Plan: (Mars Wars Book 3)
Reading Time: 9 minutes If 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.
The Laws of Nature
Reading Time: 4 minutes Two space prospectors, Zdenek and Sarika, encounter an unusual unknown life form in space. Due to carelessness, the first contact with it turns out to be too harsh and the situation escalates…
Phillip K. Dick’s Mr. Spaceship Turns AI On Its Head
Reading Time: 36 minutes Any sacrifice for the greater good is acceptable. War doesn’t wait on the needs of the individual. These themes are present in today’s tense international environment just as they were when Dick wrote this packed tale. From AI to warfare to original sin, this story hits all the big questions. Classic Phillip K. Dick tales
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Pohl’s The Hated Explores Psychosis of Space Travel
Reading Time: 15 minutes What mental stress is waiting for our astronauts on extended journeys, and what treatment can we possibly offer them? Frederick Pohl gives us one fascinating option.
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Silverberg’s Happy Unfortunate Tackles Racism in 1957
Reading Time: 25 minutes In this story, Silverberg brings us a brief glimpse into a deeply divided society, divided not just by differing values and ideas but by their very own physical bodies.
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