Missions to new civilizations (at least, new to you) can be fraught with danger, and there’s too many opportunities to accidentally offend those who could be new friends. Be careful that what they value night […]

Lose something? Can’t find your keys? Did someone hide your wallet? Where’d your friend go? Where did my…office…go? No, you’re not forgetful or clumsy, there are forces at work making sure whatever you’ve lost stays […]

Being a part of a space-faring generation may sound wonderfully futuristic, but life with traditional people, like parents and grandparents, might mean having to look backwards to old traditions. Will we be able to look […]

I’m sixteen years old. I was born in space, and I will die in space, never having set foot on a planet. Some of the first generation thought this would make my generation depressed, but it […]

In this, or any, age where truth is at a premium, and truth is a foreign concept, we all need someone like this lady to cut through the political nonsense, sexual innuendo, secrets, bravado and […]

On an Earth crippled by climate change and the decimations of its rain forests, some remember the only tribal traditions they know, in an effort to restore the Earth to what it was. Will saving […]

Do you really know the one you love? Are they the person they say they are? Are they hiding behind another identity, one that may have been hidden from everyone, including them? Who know who […]

  So many stories tell us that once we go out into the cosmos, there will be space for everyone. There will be a second chance for those who have done wrong. Too many assumptions, […]

The love of your life…no one could ever hope to replace that person. That person is unique, unique for you. It’s entirely up to you to determine if that irreplaceable person could be recreated. Will a copy be an exact duplicate? Or will that inexact copy be enough?

There was a debate in the lab as to whether today’s experiment would be historic, or ahistoric, or suprahistoric. Cassie opted for counterhistoric, but nobody ever listened much to her. Atun Bosepkale, who had dreamed […]

The Most Peaceful Airship by Leonid Korogodski – FREE STORY   I dreamed of Earth—again. I should have known better than to dream of violence—not in my planet’s most peaceful airship. Dream cybermagic was my […]

The tip of my probe looks funny. I wiggle it back and forth. Looking through the microscope, of course, this slight movement looks like an earthquake, but I’m used to that. No. This is different. […]

Hana paused on the moving sidewalk and lifted her multi-faceted eyes to the crystal dome over her head. She never tired of staring at the blanket of stars outside, so unlike her subsurface hive-world of […]

Alone, Art felt a deep sense of peace as he looked out at the stars. Often, on his way to an ore rich basin, he’d stop his truck and gaze out at the firmament. Ten […]

The TV behind the bar showed a shaky phone video, framing a flying saucer hanging in the sky. It looked like a refugee from a bad 50’s science fiction movie. “Fifteen minutes ago, authorities evacuated […]

A Small Ecological Disaster: A Children’s Storybook Adventure!   It should have been a children’s story. Once upon a time, there was a farmer. This farmer grew corn. This farmer had bugs. Keep the sentences […]

The early models were little more than crumbs. Kneaded and baked planetside, they ventured only into the shallows of The Great Empty, plying the hops between Terra and Luna, Mars, or occasionally as far as […]

Phil could sell anything to anyone. New Milwaukee, like most habitats orbiting Earth, was a moldering dump that smelled like rancid grease wrapped in locker room funk, but that was precisely why Phil had come. […]

I cry when you come to the door. It has been almost three weeks since you were hit walking home. And now, here you are, in t-shirt and khaki slacks, with the hesitant half-grin you wear […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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.”   […]

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 […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]