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Living History

by Ben Essex

(A story about clones, dinosaurs and the Concept of Benjamin Franklin). Jacob White works for the Salmon Corporation. It's an easy job, provided you do what you're told and don't ask too many questions. Jacob...

Where Beauty Lies in Wait

by Peadar Ó Guilín

A Science Fiction story originally published in Black Gate magazine. It was well reviewed, although many men in particular found it "unsettling".

M@ilbox

by Gabriel Prospero

The others know not that in this quarrel we perish. Back home after Seth's funeral, Kev sends him a final email, which receives a reply. A voice from beyond the grave, a computer hoax by a Rogerian hacker, a...

Against A Rock

by Kalin Ringkvist

Floreina is a cybernetically enhanced young woman with a vibrant future in the Amarrian Empire, a decorated turret commander and slave overseer aboard an Abaddon warship. But after a cruel “accident” and...

Into the Black

by Jeremy W. Kerr

Isambard Tims captains "The Matador," a spaceship with an interesting crew: a cyclops, a humanoid lizard, and the clone of a Chinese female pirate. However, a stowaway is about to take the ship and its crew...

Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask

by Jim Munroe

Ryan is a university student dealing with the normal problems of a 22-year-old guy -- shyness, virginity, weird roommates, and a massive crush on Cassandra, a waitress at his local greasy spoon. (Oh, and a freakish...

Roo'd

by Joshua Klein

"Roo'd is geek-addled cyberpunk fiction at its finest, about a teenage boy with two prosthetic legs and a band of misfit body-modders, shamanistic computer hackers, and pharmaceutically psychotic bioscientists....

Blindsight

by Peter Watts

Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright...

Makers

by Cory Doctorow

Perry and Lester invent things—seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the “New Work,” a New Deal for the technological...

Scroogled

The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away

The Enigma that was Carla Sinclair

by Michael Graeme

I was not completely unhinged. She was just a computer program, a crude simulation - at best a never ending animated cartoon with only one character and no story line. But she was "something",... She was a hobby...

The Star Captains' Daughter

by Kimber An

A secret baby grows up to wreak havoc on the galaxy trying to reconcile her parents' marriage, not realizing the terrible sacrifice it will require.

His Robot Girlfriend

by Wesley Allison

Mike Smith's life was crap, living all alone, years after his wife had died and his children had grown up and moved away. Then he saw the commercial for the Daffodil. Far more than other robots, the Daffodil...

Testing

by Kaolin Fire

[650 words] Six metal walls: floor, ceiling, four lateral barriers to the outside world. Two circular windows face eachother, leading out to bleak darkness. A table sits a little off from the center of the room,...

Home Again, Home Again

Return to Pleasure Island

Appeals Court

True Names

by Cory Doctorow & Benjamin Rosenbaum

The tale of duelling galactic colony-organisms that are competing to recruit all the matter in the universe for raw computation.

The Little Lady of the Big House

by Jack London

A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. Jack London said of this novel: "It is all sex from start to finish...