50. The In-between

Catina, the director of online marketing, for an important advertising agency comes up with a revolutionary idea, but forgets what it is before she can write her idea down. Desperate to remember it, she consults numerous experts in various fields, without success. When she is ready to give up, a mysterious consultant approaches her, claiming that he can help her recover the idea. Before she considers the implications of his offer Catina finds herself transported.

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49. Crevasse III - Revenge

Marco had been top ranked in player verses player one on one in the MMO Crevasse for over a year until a nobody with GM like powers poned him. Everett, the lead designer of Crevasse, lost his job over the negative reaction to his updates in Crevasse II. Mad at the studio that creates the game, Everett leaves an Easter egg in the code for the next release that has some unexpected results during a PVP match between Marco and the player who defeated him.

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48. Time Shift

In 1977 Zah Helen, an undercover operative, receives a new high profile assignment to interfere with the human search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), so the efforts at one particular radio telescope will not spot a radio signal that has been accidentally sent toward the earth.

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47. The Care Taker of Destiny

An accident forces the crew of the interstellar ship Destiny to go in to hibernation while the robotic maintenance systems diagnose and fix the problems. During the emergency crucial instructions are lost causing the ship to go into orbit around around a star for 50 thousand years.

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46. The Top of the Sky

During a period of intense solar flare activity Marianne and her family take a holiday at a remove wilderness cabin. This brings them close to a place called, the top of the sky, that some people think has mystical significance. What Marianne and her parents don’t realize, is that the top of the sky is also the destination for a group of aliens who live in the corona of the sun.

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32. Universe 8.1

Lambent Nape Nor works at the Infinite Macro Cosmic Reality Corporation as the assistant head of product design and customer services for Universe 8. Despite Lambent’s concerns management insists on a last minute change to an already rushed update. It quickly becomes evident that change does more than they had intended.

The week’s story is based on the idea proposed by physicist David Bohm that the Universe is might be similar to a holographic projection and discussion around our house on recent news headlines that graphically point out how things don’t always go as planned.

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26. Laika - Dog From Space

A passing celestial being is trapped by earth’s gravity and dragged reluctantly to its surface in the middle of a Moscow winter. Stranded in the body of a dog the alien being is forced to intervene in the early Russian Space program in order to get a ride home. The story is loosely based on the Sputnik 2 mission that carried a dog named Laika into space on November 3, 1957.

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24. The Shimmering Field

Time can seem to slow down when there is nothing to do, and this was particularly true for Abeo who had been forced to endure a summer without her friends on a lonely research station. Her father and the other adults were too distracted by some unusual observations too pay attention to Abeo. One day she finds a mysterious friend her own age in a field, and her summer begins to pass quickly, but the visits of her new companion have unexpected consequences.

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16. 22. Boy Who Loved Candy

Sometimes you can love something just a little too much. Under the influence of a mysterious dream Marco discovers that he can’t stop eating candy and begins to grow to alarming proportions.
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