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The Survey: What Does It Take To Be A Fan? Novedades de Septiembre 1 Book Review: The Case Against Reality by Donald D. Hoffman Review: The Dark Gift by Trevor Jones Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: The FIRST Science Fiction Magazines
Science Fiction September 18, 2023

For the Betterment of All by C.B. Droege – FREE STORY

The mathematician split his time evenly among observation, calculation, and sleep. He never did conform to the can’s twenty-four-hour schedule. He had been accustomed to a thirty-hour day, and apparently saw no social or functional […]

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Science Fiction September 11, 2023

May She Live Forever by Peter J. Carter – FREE STORY

The next time I saw her was two years after she died. My wife was thirty-two years old when cancer took her. She was diagnosed with Glioblastoma, an insidious tendrillar growth that grows in your brain, […]

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Science Fiction September 4, 2023

The Zombie Hunter by Sue Pawlowski – FREE STORY

I wasn’t always a fearless zombie hunter. I missed the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. I’d quit my job after a series of sexual harassment episodes perpetrated by my perverted boss that the HR department […]

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Science Fiction August 28, 2023

Eat Me by Norman Spinrad – FREE STORY

His full name really was Tex Colin Davis, “Colin” was not exactly a middle name. “Colin Davis” was the family name given to it by Bruce Davis about four generations back when he got modestly […]

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Science Fiction August 21, 2023

I am Empire by James Mapes – FREE STORY

Let’s see what’s been happening lately, shall we? In the same moment, fifty-thousand people sneezed simultaneously, as though they’d planned it. And the very next moment, spread across the two planets and twelve moons of […]

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Science Fiction August 14, 2023

Champ by Chaz Osburn – FREE STORY

“You’re Myr Anderson?” “You seem surprised,” said the woman at the door. “You said I should meet you here, at your office, at one o’clock.” “I am surprised,” I admitted, looking at my watch. “Because […]

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Science Fiction August 7, 2023

Truth, Beauty and Metallurgy By Alex Graham-Heggie – FREE STORY

Commander Georgiana Owen rolled over in bed to answer her comm. “Good morning?”   “It is a brand new day, Commander,” said Warrant Officer Gabriella Castille’s halting monotone. “According to Sergeant Franklin. Also, 07:00.”   […]

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Science Fiction July 31, 2023

Moon’s End by William H. Hughes – FREE STORY

May 7, 2227 The shuttle Callisto rocketed out of the atmosphere. James Cabot and Michael Lee watched the Earth shrink through the window. The Second Space War hadn’t stayed in space. Ash and dust obscured the […]

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Science Fiction July 24, 2023

Loading the Sling by Brandon Nolta – FREE STORY

  I wasn’t born a Belter, but I’m probably about to die one. Maybe someone will come looking for my carcass when the shooting stops, but it’s not a good bet. There’s a lot of […]

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Science Fiction July 17, 2023

A Pit of Unicorn Ashes by Gene Turchin – FREE STORY

  Goddamn unicorns. Spontaneous mutation triggered by a new artificial sweetener started turning people into unicorns. The mutated gene somehow plucked the concept of mythical fantasy creatures out of fractured synapses, causing men and women to transmute […]

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Science Fiction July 10, 2023

Illusion of Life by Adam Breckenridge – FREE STORY

Wei knew what she wanted to do with the lights as soon as she found them in the storage closet. The town across the lake was falling into a state of ruin far beyond any […]

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Science Fiction July 3, 2023

Some Hidden Soul by Dave Creek – FREE STORY

Kayonga Tedesco forced himself to put aside the emotions coursing through his consciousness after the confrontation moments earlier with the commander of Callisto Base. He was taking all his concentration to pilot the shuttle Pinega into […]

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Science Fiction June 26, 2023

Every Quiver of Each of Them by Simon Christiansen – FREE STORY

We walked by the canal at Nyhavn harbor, Copenhagen, looking for a good place to eat. The sun had nearly set in the distance, and neon drones covered the street in red, blue, and green […]

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Science Fiction June 19, 2023

True Colors by Michael J. Murphy – FREE STORY

1.   It was a beautiful, sun-drenched Saturday morning when 42-year-old Charlie Duncan opened the front door of his single-family home and strolled down the walkway, between the flanking rose bushes, to retrieve his newspaper. His back ached […]

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Science Fiction June 12, 2023

Been There, Done That by David Ian – FREE STORY

( Audio Credits: Reading by Sam A. Mowry, Soundscape by David Ian ) He checked through passport control, an unbearable line that seemed to grow instead of shrink, but he finally handed his Ident capsule […]

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Science Fiction June 5, 2023

The Living Land by Karl Elkoura – FREE STORY

If she could only talk to her mother, Kris thought, she could figure out what to do, what to say, what to think even. How to handle this situation like her mother, Captain Donna Lynd, […]

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Science Fiction May 29, 2023

Take Me to Your Leader by Paul Saka – FREE STORY

  “But why?  Why should they die?” asked Eteract.  “You say, Gurovvu, that it’s their own doing, and that we have no obligations here.  That much is true, but still, we could do something, if we […]

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Science Fiction May 25, 2023

Insurance by Michael Carabott – FREE STORY

  Gren hurried down the wide corridor, his hooves clicking against the cold stone tiles in a frantic staccato rhythm that matched his agitated state of mind. “Who installs stone tiles on a naval flagship? […]

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Science Fiction May 22, 2023

Nightlight by Jeff Hewitt – FREE STORY

  For Rosalyn   June 3, 2072   She woke. In the flow of seconds, she suppressed a cry of dismay, of terror, of loneliness. Elisabeth was three years old. She was in her bed, […]

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Science Fiction May 18, 2023

The Greatest Mistake by Michael Carabott – FREE STORY

    “What price would you pay to fix your greatest mistake?” The question hung in the air between us, the weight of it at odds with the situation we found ourselves in. I looked […]

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Science Fiction May 15, 2023

The Quantum Pirate by Arthur Byron Cover – FREE STORY

       “Friend, what is your opinion of Emperor Justinian’s new reprobate re-education program?” “Reprobate I understand; re-education I understand; but what is this thing called an opinion?” (An ancient witticism, attributed to an […]

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Science Fiction May 11, 2023

The Madness by Michael Carabott – FREE STORY

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 […]

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Science Fiction May 8, 2023

Speak, Friend, And Enter by Adrian Tchaikovsky – FREE STORY

  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 […]

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Science Fiction May 4, 2023

Through the Eye of the Needle by Michael Carabott – FREE STORY

  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, […]

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Science Fiction May 1, 2023

The Last Ten Minutes by Brad Jensen – FREE STORY

  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 […]

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Science Fiction April 24, 2023

Next Level Tina by John Andrew Karr – FREE STORY

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 […]

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Science Fiction April 17, 2023

The Age of Existential Machines by Derek A. Johnson – FREE STORY

  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 […]

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Science Fiction April 10, 2023

Though Worlds Divide Us by Christopher L. Bennett – FREE STORY

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 […]

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Fiction April 3, 2023

The Bother With Bowbies by Jack McKenzie – FREE STORY

“Hold on,” Cordwainer said, standing up from his navigation station and facing the clients. “Are you talking live cargo? I thought we were transporting a load of horns.” “Bowble horns are no good less’n they’re […]

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Fiction March 27, 2023

The Site Visit by Nerine Dorman – FREE STORY

  As for why they needed an Egyptologist on bloody Mars of all places, I couldn’t tell. And no, it was not for the sake of the supposed ‘pyramid’ that people were losing their minds […]

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