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Fiction Series: Ongoing 22 Chapters

Quixote Ugly

Updated Nov 10, 2020 · 51,790 words (189 minutes) · 1 like · 321 views

Marcy's neighbor asks her to be her "sassy best friend." Jasmine has been reading urban fantasy for her thesis and thinks she's a paranormal investigator. At first, Marcy humors her because it beats what's on TV, but then they meet a were-beaver, battle some drones (or fairies?), and Marcy starts to worry about "aiding and abetting." Can this modern Sancho save the town and her Quixote from each other? Note: This novel is a complete draft, but I'm revising chapters before posting them.

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Featured October 15, 2020

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Alec Nevala-Lee

Singularity Day

Published Oct 11, 2020 · 1,179 words (5 minutes) · 3 likes · 1293 views

Satire artificial intelligence A.I. Singularity Superintelligence Op-Ed Opinion Piece

In the future, humans commemorate the 100-year anniversary of Singularity Day, the point at which technology accelerated beyond our control and made mortality and global warming quaint relics of the past. But some historians question whether we truly understood what we were giving up when we ceded our fate to faceless algorithms.

Hugo and Locus Award finalist Alec Nevala-Lee is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Analog, Lightspeed, and more. He’s published several novels with Penguin Books, including THE ICON THIEF, and a nonfiction history of the Golden Age of Science Fiction called ASTOUNDING with Dey Street Books/HarperCollins. His forthcoming biography of Buckminster Fuller will be available in 2021.

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Anatoly Belilovsky

Tolya's Twabbles

Published Sep 21, 2020 · 168 words (1 minute) · 93 views

Fantasy Horror Humor Satire Science Fiction twabbles

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Kurt Pankau

10 Civilization-Ending Calamities I've Caused (And One Is A Lie)

Published Jul 18, 2020 · 442 words (2 minutes) · 1 like · 2 views

Fantasy Humor Satire Facebook meme elder gods of chaos and destruction

When gods meme. This one will be free in my newsletter and un-paywalled here eventually.

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Anatoly Belilovsky

Lowest Common Denominator

Published Jul 9, 2020 · 3,141 words (12 minutes) · 235 views

Classic Humor Literary Fiction Satire Science Fiction

This one is an original! You'll see why in a moment. To say that it's in poor taste is to praise it above its station.

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Featured July 2, 2020

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Daniel Roy

The Virus Dreams

Published Jun 29, 2020 · 1,743 words (7 minutes) · 4 likes · 625 views

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In retrospect, it was a little odd that all these alien cultures were so similar to humans, with just a face ridge here or a brightly-colored skin tone there to distinguish them as different. To be fair to the hapless humans though, the real explanation could be considered quite far-fetched.

Daniel Roy is a Canadian video game narrative writer and SF author currently living in Sofia, Bulgaria. His game credits include A Total War Saga: TROY, Need For Speed Payback, and Eon Altar.

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Anatoly Belilovsky

Hither and Yon

Published May 4, 2020 · 2,486 words (10 minutes) · 209 views

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What really happens in the Bermuda Triangle...

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Tim McDaniel

Welcome to SFCO

Published May 3, 2020 · 2,044 words (8 minutes) · 232 views

Humor Satire Science Fiction employer handbook rights corporate culture policy corporations Business employee

A useful handbook for new employees of SFCO, An excerpt: "Some employees may be asked to fill out a short self-evaluation form, while others may be challenged to fight to the death in the sand pits (on the second floor, just past Gary’s office). Others may be required to write and perform quarterly operettas, declamations, artfully staged writhings, or tragic performances that will play on the heartstrings (only sometimes literally) of supervisory staff."

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