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Category: Pure Speculation

  • Flash Fiction: Gods Upon Gods

    A quick, 600-words or less read you can take in here. “Is that one of those computers?” I asked gesturing at the flat, monolithic screen hanging on the far wall. “Sort of,” he replied, staring oddly at the housewarming gift I’d set on a table. “It’s more of an entertainment center, but it does a…

  • SF Short, Extraction, Published at Aphelion

    …and I didn’t even know it until I got the google alert. This short story is one that I wasn’t entirely comfortable with publishing, but the webzine “cribbed” it from somewhere on my website, where I didn’t know I had posted/uploaded it. Since everything I do is Creative Commons licensed, this is pretty darn cool.…

  • Flash SF: The Last Bon Voyage

    “I can’t believe you’re doing this,” I muttered, “leaving me so you can die in space.” “Please don’t frame it like that,” the tremble in Phoebe’s voice exposed how traumatic this was for her too. “You know why I’m doing this. I want my children to–” “Your great great grandchidren,” I spat. “I want them…

  • Flash Fiction: Science Heaven

    “Heya!” a pipsqueak of a girl with a pair of cheap, paper-mache wings strapped to her back greeted the small gaggle of stunned onlookers. “Welcome to Heaven! I’m you’re tour guide!” A series of “Oh’s” and “Ah’s” wafted from the group, all of whom were looking around the endless, cloud-filled landscape appreciatively. “Last thing I…

  • Flash Fiction: Appreciation for Civilization is Mandatory

    “Have you ever dissected a stray cat Mr. Archer?” the old mad scientist grinned deviously at the man resembling a living Greek statue, currently bound to the cavern’s rock wall by a small army of spiderbots chain-linked around him. “Another one of your sick childhood hobbies Doctor X?” Swift Archer jutted his substantial chin out…

  • Flash Fiction: Open-Source Minds

    “Break it up! Break it up! You’re in a feedback loop!” Ms. Moriah had grabbed the two boys by their shirt-collars and was wrenching them apart. Within moments, her thoughts were interceding between their minds, just as her arms were pushing apart their bodies. Alvin and Cory were both breathing hard, staring at one another…

  • Flash SF Story: The Way of the Dinosaurs

    “I don’t understand why we have to leave Earth for a stupid space ship anyway,” Tory, my 10-year-old daughter, griped. She had been a muttering, grumpy bundle of joy all day as we loaded belongings into our assigned shuttle. “Because it’s time for the human race to grow up and join the galactic community,” I…

  • Flash SF Story: Scriptures

    “Father,” Demetrius’ voice trembled, his youthful blue eyes were swollen and watery, “I cannot absolve myself of these doubts.” Lord Balthasar placed two firm and reassuring hands on Demetrius’ shoulders, welcoming this distraction from the unrelenting hunger pains that plagued them all, “It is uncommon for one to question their faith in such desperate times,…

  • Studio 360: When Particles Collide

    Large Hadron Collider Credit: US LHC Actress Marth Plimpton reads a short short story Lydia Millet was commissioned to write for Studio 360 on the idea of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) producing a black hole, and the cultural, political, and spiritual ramifications of this ludicrously remote possibility. What happens if the worst happens? is…

  • “Simulation’s End” Posted to Oort-Cloud

    Miniscule zygotes, Grow up to form memes, Verily, Verily, Verily, Verily, Life is but a real-time strategy game. I’ve been playing around speculatively with this whole Physical World as a Virtual Reality concept and wrote a short story exploring some of the implications: Anzel took a deep breath and closed his eyes as the cooling…

  • “The Reluctant Transhumanist” Posted at Oort-Cloud

    I’ve posted my short story The Reluctant Transhumanist to Oort-Cloud. It’s about a young man sacrificing his humanity to pursue his dreams. I’m gonna work on getting more stuff up there in the coming months. I’ve got a backlog of SF stories I need to get out of my writing folder that I keep getting…

  • Published at the SCQ! Science Fiction VS Fantasy

    “Chosen One” Archtype The Science Creative Quarterly has posted an abrieviated version of my Science Fiction VS Fantasy article. The picture to the right didn’t make the cut, neither did 90% of section II for being contradictory, and neither did some of my more juvenile, however insightful observations about Conan not wiping his butt. So…