In the first decades of the 21st century, a new unknown virus spread through the Earth. It goes unnoticed for years because, unlike any previously known virus, the disease it spreads has no noticeable side effects or at least none apparent immediately. After all, its only side-effect was that infected women could not conceive unless the fetus had male chromo...
Aqua City One. Humanities first great archology built during the 2020s and finished in the 22nd century. From the sky it appeared to be a giant flower with six lily pads around it. Built in the Australian desert after it was flooded to combat the rising sea levels. It rapidly became a mecca for scientific advancement leading the world in all fields. As it gr...
By Sophia the calibeachgirl All rights reserved, copyright 2010 Chapter 1: Information Is Power I looked at myself in the mirror and my light cinnamon face stared back. If I had known how crazy the day was going to turn out, I probably would have just stayed in bed and pulled the covers up over my head. Kevin Sales, the lawyer I worked for, had told me t...
Few people realize the full width of the advances in medical and biological science in recent years. So let me bring you up to speed, and tell you about some of them. DNA and stem cell triggering Your basic organic cell, called a stem cell, has no idea of what he’ll be - an eye, a fingernail, a heart or a brain cell, whatever. There’s a profile package of DN...
The first thing you are aware of is the pounding headache. Like a swarm of wasps, with jackhammers, trying to drill into your skull from every direction at once. God, you think to yourself. What happened? The next thing you are aware of is the sun, shining down through your window and glinting off the collection of bottles on your bedside table. The sour ste...
“Rayne! Can you hand me the plasma sensor?” yelled a big, red headed man with an elegant, curled moustache towards a young woman, long, black hair flowed over her shoulders. Rayne was part of an Artificers Guild and worked at Gerard’s Workshop. Gerard, the best artificer in town, even though his shop was far from the biggest in town, had personally seen to R...
It was a cool summer morning on June 2nd, as the sun rose to overlook the town of Fairview, none was the wiser to the events that were about to take place in this quiet town. But as the sun rose, and with it the roosters crowed and alarms buzzed, the town was quickly awake with hustle and bustle just like any other day. School was now out for the summer, and...
Frank's knee bounced nervously as he sat on the park bench waiting for his date. He hoped Justin would look something like his photo on the AugNET dating app so he could pick him out of the milling crowd. He equally hoped he noticed his tall and thin beanpole-like build in the sea of people out for the afternoon on the Jersey boardwalk. At the very least, he...
My best friend in the world, save only my husband, was a classmate of mine through all my college years. Outside our major fields, bioengineering and psychology for Nick and myself respectively, we had a lot of the same required classes. We studied together often, and our hobbies overlapped, too. We became "friends with benefits," but no more than that since...
My best friend in the world, save only my husband, was a classmate of mine through all my college years. Outside our major fields, bioengineering and psychology for Nick and myself respectively, we had a lot of the same required classes. We studied together often, and our hobbies overlapped, too. We became "friends with benefits," but no more than that since...