The Citizen’s New Town
This month’s story is very loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen short tale The Emperor’s New Clothes. Amber is working as a stage director for the opening celebration of …
The Last Astronomer
This month’s story is based on a comment Steven Hawkins once made: We should probably not try to contact extraterrestrial civilizations. According to Hawkins, our own history has shown that …
All Inclusive
Alonzo is forced to take his ailing, wealthy mother and her robotic wheel chair to an ultra expensive all inclusive health spa. The doctors and specialists told him that the …
Dreams of a Life
Aura lives with her mother and brothers, making a modest living from a concession stand. Her life in the themed dome park Timber World is thrown into chaos when an …
Lifeboat
With the first Moon landings in the late 1960s, many may have felt that a Mars mission was not too far off, but since then, no human has left near …
C-11’s Quest
An automated planetary mission goes awry when it is hit by solar flares. Unit C-11, one of the landing group’s communication nodes, attempts to repair its damaged memory with information …
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 …
Invasion
An imminent invasion derails a 500-year-old terraforming project. No one, except a small group of scientists, understands the threat’s true nature and its implications for the future of their …
Perspectives & the Mission
This month, we present two short stories. In the first one, Perspectives, a routine mission is suddenly changed by a chance encounter in deep space. This story evolved out …
Laika – Dog From Space
A passing celestial being is trapped by Earth’s gravity and reluctantly dragged to its surface in the middle of a Moscow winter. Stranded in the body of a dog, …
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 …
The 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 …