John Langan | Renfrew’s Course
Six feet tall, the statue had been carved from wood that retained most of its whiteness, even though the date cut into its base read 2005, seven years ago. Jim thought the color might be due to its no...
12 Jun 201250min
Simon McCaffery | The Cristóbal Effect
The wooden detour barricade is barely in place when I spot the car closing fast from the east. Just a glint of light against the desert hills, yet I know it is his car. I ignite the last flare and tos...
5 Jun 201242min
Melanie Rawn | Mother of All Russiya
She paced the stones, her feet separated from the chill by sable-lined slippers. She was cold despite them, cold from her toes to her crown. Perhaps it was the vengeance of the fire, that she had not ...
22 Mai 20121h 1min
C.C. Finlay | The Cross-Time Accountants Fail To Kill Hitler Because Chuck Berry Does The Twist
Mabel blurred through the Doorway and stumbled into a wall. She groped for a fingerhold, anything to prop herself up until the gut-twisting vertigo passed. Every time she experienced the blur it got a...
15 Mai 201241min
Catherynne M. Valente | A Hole to China
Tristram was certain she would never have made the attempt had she not heard that it was a thing other children often did. She did so want to be like other children—lolling about like great striped ca...
8 Mai 201257min
Linda Nagata | Nightside on Callisto
A faint, steady vibration carried through the igloo’s massive ice walls—a vibration that shouldn’t have been there. Jayne heard it in her sleep. Age had not dulled her soldier’s reflexes, honed by dec...
1 Mai 201250min
Kim Stanley Robinson | Our Town
I found my friend Desmond Kean at the northeast corner of the penthouse viewing terrace, assembling a telescope with which to look at the world below. He took a metal cylinder holding a lens and screw...
24 Apr 201224min
Eric Gregory | The Sympathy
The apartment was in his name, and the Accord was in hers. It took Lauren less than a minute to step out one door and into the other. She put her suitcase in the floorboard and her laptop bag in the p...
17 Apr 20121h 3min
