John's fingers were a blur on the keyboard, his eyes darting across the screen as he tweaked the final lines of code. It had been a labor of love, an obsession that consumed his every waking moment for the past year. His creation, a humanoid machine he called ST9000, was designed to learn from its environment, adapting and growing like any human would. And t...
Chapter 3 Impossible Things As the fires burned the air of Destran, the life the residents of this planet were used to seeing, surprisingly, not only survived, but thrived. It simply did so where the fires couldn't reach. In the far reaches of the atmosphere, birds, insects, and a few reptiles and mammals floated on the updrafts caused by the heat of the f...
A Controllable Invisibility Collar or a CIC, is a magical and also highly modern item. Offered only in the most obscure stores and the strangest websites, this collar is a treasure trove of kinky fun. It allows someone to turn the wearer invisible and visible at will, but even allows extending its power to other people. Below you will find the instruction ma...
They were messing around the office one afternoon; things there were slow at that time of year. Experimental Gerar (a feline-like humanoid hybrid) had bought a cache of old data from some Timonier who lived in the Ruhrik Zone, she'd showed it to Nol (a human non-hybrid, who are very rare these days), and the two were going through it, trying to identify what...
Note: I wrote this story before seeing the movie "A.I." where I was surprised to see some of the same concepts presented. I'd like my readers to be aware that I did not deliberately copy ideas from that movie. * * * * * "And that brings the 180th annual Oscar Awards ceremony to a close. Goodnight everyone!" "Off," I said. The TV didn't respond. "Off!" I...
Hi. My name's Chris Williams. I've always been a pretty nerdy kid, and it shows. I'm pale, skinny and on the nerdy side, with chunky glasses that obscure a good portion of my face. School was always pretty hellish - the jocks would pick on me, cramming me into my locker, shoving me in the corridors and of course girls weren't interested in me at all. I had t...
Since the beginning, there have always been comic books. And in those comic books, there were always heroes and villains. An eternal battle between good and evil. Fantastic stories of cosmic scales about the great heroes we admired throughout our childhood and the villains we loved to hate. These are the stories who shaped us into the nerds we are today. Thi...
Franklin Patterson woke slowly, aware of the cool, crisp sheets surrounding his nude body. He lifted his left hand to his forehead as his eyelids fluttered open. "That was one hell of a party," he muttered as he sat up and swung his legs over the side of the bed. He looked around as he stood. The walls were eggshell white, two walls held paintings of bowls...
Franz Kafka had a great influence on writing and literature in the 20th century. Even today, strange and/or creepy stories are called Kafkaesque. In his novella "Die Verwandlung" (usually translated into English as "Metamorphosis") a man slowly turns into a cockroach. In my version of Metamorphosis, I go one up on Kafka. Not only does a woman totally change...
High above Eastern Hail, a second starship made planet fall, resplendent in the colors of the old Akhwan Guard. It soared through Hail's twilight skies, little more than a red and white blur as it streaked low over the clouds to its pilot's designated landing spot. As expected, a warning tone rang in her ear as her mech-droid picked up someone trying to acqu...