The comm-pad on the table between them chimed, a new notification scrolling across its otherwise dark screen. Ya’teng picked it up, a pained look spreading across his face before he slammed the device down in […]

  And so, in these latter days, you come here to our mines. You, the first children of creation, the children of the sun. The bright ones. The mirror-shiny helms you wear mean we could […]

  The universe is a big place. Insanely big, really. We all know it, intellectually at least, if perhaps not with the same bone-deep certainty with which we know those things that we can see, […]

  The lights came up gently in Gordon’s sleeping pod. The bed was tiny but sufficient to fit his six-foot frame in extraordinary comfort. Like everything surrounding him, it had been designed with exquisite efficiency […]

After nine incident reports and working well beyond the standard close of business, Trudy Coleman was ready to jettison the day job. With rapid fire mouse clicks she slayed the tunnel of apps and windows that were her […]

  Anxiety wormed its way through the Gardener’s mind after the seeds began using tools. It took time for seeds to germinate. There were moments when the Gardener worried the Omnidem had miscalculated either the double system’s […]

Miranda Ayodele glowered at the not-quite-human being slumped on the rear bench of her rover. “I should have left you to die.” Wide, dark eyes with cybernetic irises gazed back. Slender fingers lowered the rover’s […]