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James Van Pelt

The Continuing Saga of Tom Corbett: Space Cadet

Published Jun 21, 2021 · 5,297 words (20 minutes) · 1 like · 74 views

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Did you know you can go to space right now, at least if you close your eyes? YouTube has hours of ambient spaceship noise. You might be sitting in your living room, but aurally you could be between the stars. Imagine if leaving Earth was your overriding desire, and what if, unfortunately, you were a girl named Tom Corbett.

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Edward Ashton

Unifiers

Published Jun 19, 2021 · 4,183 words (16 minutes) · 1 like · 18 views

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Dropping onto a colony world is always an adventure. Light speed quarantine makes it impossible for us to touch any given world more than once every few centuries, and a lot can happen in three hundred years. Sometimes we find apes. Sometimes we find angels. Michaela and I, though—we’re Unifiers. Our job is to remind them all how to be humans.

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Jaymee Goh

Four Generations of Feathers

Published Jun 19, 2021 · 498 words (2 minutes) · 85 views

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A brief contemplation on evolution, dinosaurs, and the pain of changing generations. (Also with the assumption that dinosaurs did not have feathers.)

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Charles Q. Choi

No Worlds Left to Conquer

Updated Jun 16, 2021 · 1,237 words (5 minutes) · 18 views

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What happens to science fiction when aliens actually do show up on Earth? (Reprinted in Metastellar, with the original version appearing in Scientific American's blog network in 2011.)

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Stephen (Peter) Cox

Our Child of Two Worlds Update

Published Jun 13, 2021 · 71 words (1 minute) · 13 views

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Update on Our Child of Two Worlds

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Marlee Jane Ward

The Forgetting Navigations - One

Published Jun 12, 2021 · 3,696 words (14 minutes) · 1 like · 25 views

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The Forgetting Navigations is a novella I wrote in 2018. I have attempted to sell it and had no luck. I want it to be read, so I'm posting it here in 4-6 parts. This story gnawed at me until I wrote it, the way that every trauma gnaws at you. The way you gnaw at yourself. It's a bow to every older woman who can teach you how to live without gnawing, 'cause she's learned how. It's a song to friendship and how it can give you something to tether you to life.

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Charles Q. Choi

WORK IN PROGRESS #1

Updated Jun 7, 2021 · 1,574 words (6 minutes) · 17 views

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Daniel Ausema

To Hunt a Sky Eel

Published Jun 3, 2021 · 3,286 words (12 minutes) · 27 views

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Typenn is famous for the immersive recordings he makes of hunting creatures throughout the universe. His pursuit of the majestic sky eel does not go as he expected.

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Marie Vibbert

The Toymaker's Daughters

Published Jun 2, 2021 · 3,764 words (14 minutes) · 1 like · 9 views

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Claire is a wooden automaton working in a dive bar. Today she gets to meet her sister for the first time. This originally appeared in the "The Internet is Where Robots Live Now" anthology

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Thomas Parrott

For a Mercenary's Pay

Updated Jun 1, 2021 · 16,618 words (61 minutes) · 116 views

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