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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,

THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR ALARM… Geoff Gander Margret pulled the red banner from her threadbare grey jacket and unfurled it. She

THE LAST FLIGHT OF ODIN’S HUNDRED L. Jagi Lamplighter The hanged god stood on the bridge of the Dragon-class destroyer and gazed

TIANGONG PARK Erika D. Price Ernestine made us a butternut squash soup with chunks of green apple and pear. She blended the

THE BERLIN DOCTRINE Anton Rose September, 1916 Several hundred miles outside of the Earth’s atmosphere, a man appeared in space. For a

INVASION OF THE COMMON SENSE ALIENS T. D. Edge The rasp of the doorbell slices through my brain like a guillotine. Okay,

NADEZHDA NEVSKY Jeff Racho The Cyberian Dreadnought – “Dreads” to his admiring public – stood on the Hill of Heroes in MetroCity’s

ZEE WARRIOR Mark Wolf I felt like I was leaning over a cliff even on level ground, my new legs mismatched. Body

THE IMAGINED PRESENT Louis Armand 1. In an attempt to establish general criteria for scientific discourse, Karl Popper famously invoked the term

THE BUTTON Jamie Wahls B-113 had begun to sweat, and his knuckles were clenched white against the metal table. He had done

EMERGENT BEHAVIOR Deepak Bharathan The first time I walked into the room, I melted. And no, I don’t mean that figuratively. It

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR Jeffrey G. Roberts I stand looking into my open grave. Except it isn’t in the beautiful

“Ask the subject to come in.” A thud came from the other end of the line, like the phone had been dropped.

THE HEMINGWAY HUNTER E.J. Shumak If someone is lucky enough to leave behind quotes when they exit this physical plane, they are

Let the Tempest Hold Me Down Zena Shapter When I glide into the yellows of our forest glen, I cannot hear the

MEGACATS Jonathon Burgess Martin hated standing in line. At least a dozen others waited to use the bulky alien Maker-machine. They tapped