For the first time in the history of the Earth he was warm. The sun was a red bloated ball on the far horizon. Without the ozone and radiation belts the solar radiation soaked into his old bones. The hideous Beast of the six's shifted in his seat of power. With a sigh he lifted his eyes and looked at the velvet blackness of space. The cold emptiness chilled...
Ajax found Cutter and Ronald waiting for him in the spaceport hanger the next morning. TIL Bonventure had been pulled out into the sunlight and sat apart from the more common designs. She was bigger than the passenger shuttles and prettier than cargo-haulers. As he admired it, he became aware that someplace, someone from an enemy zaibatsu was snapping holo-f...
copyright 2012 by Madengineer3 "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad" (Latin: Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius) "Mills of the Gods, Grind exceedingly slow, But grind exceedingly fine.", attributed to Euripides * Chad was sort of a useless human being. Unfortunately not only was he a miserable person but he had wealth and position that...
In 2102, a crack team of scientists aboard the I.S.S. Experimenting with a new space-based atom smasher finally managed to tear a hole in space-time while searching for some method of teleportation to make intergalactic travel easier after the world’s over-population became disastrous. This hole did not pave a way for teleportation or intergalactic travel, h...
In the large research complex of the Baxter building, a portal the size of a large doorway swirled open, its shape a raging torrent of a circle yet calm, while a group of people made their way out of the passageway. “My goodness how disorientating, a world with five suns, I wonder how the life on that world deal with so much solar radiation.” Wondered Reed R...
The next few months are difficult for me to think about, let alone write about. We got the news of Alicia's disease in mid-May. After that, we went for a round of surgery, which did some good, followed by a round of radiation therapy, which also did some good. But by the time we had started to treat the disease in earnest, the cancer had already traveled via...
This is another story I wrote for the same contest as the previous one I submitted. I was hesitant about submitting this, fearing that someone would accuse me of plagiarism. It was written and completed about four years before an author wrote a novel about this very type of story, one that I have not had the chance to read myself. I'm submitting it 'as is',...
LXXXIXWarMark & Molly2076 This wasn't the first time that Mark and Molly had sat together on the sofa transfixed by the vision of a huge slowly growing and self-enveloping luminescent cloud tumbling ever upwards into the sky into the now familiar shape of a mushroom. This wasn't even the first time that the couple had watched the image of exactly the sa...
XVII Faith and Charity Tamara 2093 Tamara studied the framed picture on the wall. It showed the image of a slightly tubby middle-aged woman which had been made to resemble a mediaeval Christian saint. She even had a halo around her forehead. "Who's this?" Tamara asked. "It's Saint Diane," said Dahab. "She was the founder of the Reigate centre." "Is...
Hillary Trenton, a young, blue-eyed buxom blonde, was archaeology's fastest-rising star. A recent big find of a previously unknown species of dinosaur had catapulted the young archaeologist to public recognition (rare in her field) and, of course, money. Hillary was already set for life, a combination of TV appearances, book deals, and of course profit from...