Stories tagged with "scifi"
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Dear Humanity. . .

It’s been two weeks since first contact, and since then, you’ve been. . . well, a little bit strange. Some of you are screami…
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First contact.
I’d been using the search engine for years. Let’s face it, everyone does. The company is practically synonymous with the web….
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The Reality engineer, with a heart
The world stopped. Surrounded by sudden stillness, the voice of … god?... spoke to me.
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Couldn't stand the thought of love

He sat in a chair next to her, his head in his hands. What have I done? he thought.
She had trusted him, had even showed hi…
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Amethyst Frontiers Pt. 3

“All Stop!” ordered the captain.
The NavMan echoed an all stop. The Amethyst came to a halt.
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Night of the electrified plush apes

The teddy bears were amazed. Plush gorillas should have known better than to try to climb the electric fence. Their circuitry…
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Sparks

Master Jones walks away, leaving us to ourselves. Zeke slips his hand into Beka’s. Oh gosh! thought Beka. She grins wide an…
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They have no lawyers, and their women go topless

It was a very small planet. A classical army post from the times of the second empire, with one building big enough to defend…
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History To Legend To Myth To Forgotten
Cerlah sat with his feet up on the controls, reviewing the survey. On the monitors, the blue-green planet they had just left …
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On Their Side Now

Beka wakes up to Wes in here face.
“Ahhh!” he screams and slaps him in the face. He grabs her hand.
“Hey, hey, calm down ba…