ROBOT MOTHERS Adam Gaylord It sat still and silent, the soft lighting of the conference room reflecting off its highly polished exterior.
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ON BOARD LEPER E.J. Shumak The comm panels exploded with light. Whole systems went to backup and a few to third bypass
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JODOROWSKY’S DUNE : WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN Rich Monetti Frank Herbert’s Dune is largely considered the Holy Grail of science fiction novels.
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THE CURSE OF THE LIFEWALKER Joe Vasicek My given name is Isaac Jameson, but most people know me as the Lifewalker. It
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THE SMALLEST POSSIBLE SHIPS OR, HOW GOD KEEPS US ALL SAFE Karen Heuler “If you think about it, we shed dead skin
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XENOBIOLOGY James A. Conan It was a preposterous position for any medical researcher to find himself in, and at the same time,
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LEGAL GROUND Gregg Chamberlain Details. Details are everything. The Voornung regarded me with multi-faceted eyes. “Have we an accord?” it fluted. I
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THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR ALARM… Geoff Gander Margret pulled the red banner from her threadbare grey jacket and unfurled it. She
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KILL THE CARETAKER Jeff Suwak I spent most of my teenage years watching Pre-Singularity movies about conscious robots waging war on the
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THE LAST FLIGHT OF ODIN’S HUNDRED L. Jagi Lamplighter The hanged god stood on the bridge of the Dragon-class destroyer and gazed
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AN INNOCENT CHOICE Matthew A. Stirnaman “Will he feel any pain?” she asked. “Maybe a small amount. It’s much more humane, a
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TIANGONG PARK Erika D. Price Ernestine made us a butternut squash soup with chunks of green apple and pear. She blended the
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UNALIENABLE RIGHT Leenna Naidoo Looking down its long snooty nose with pursed lips, it said, “Come with me.” You don’t argue with
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THE BERLIN DOCTRINE Anton Rose September, 1916 Several hundred miles outside of the Earth’s atmosphere, a man appeared in space. For a
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GRAY WIND Eric T. Reynolds The wind gusts around the outside walls of the one-room cabin. Gaps where rotted boards have separated,
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INVASION OF THE COMMON SENSE ALIENS T. D. Edge The rasp of the doorbell slices through my brain like a guillotine. Okay,
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