Tag Archives: Story

First sentence: It is a Sunday morning in summer and a small brown chimpanzee named Rachel sits on the living room floor of a remote ranch house on the edge of the Painted Desert. She is watching a Tarzan movie on … Continue reading →

Synopsis: Naqi lives on planet Turquoise, an oceanic world where the Pattern Jugglers live. They are aquatic alien entities capable of storing the neural patterns of human swimmers, preserving their memories and consciousness forever.Naqi’s sister is a rare case of … Continue reading →

★★★☆☆ First sentence:  As he did on the first Wednesday of every month, after first finishing off the bottle of wine he’d fallen asleep with, then drinking three bleary fingers of absinthe, and with an extra slug for good measure, Tom … Continue reading →

Synopsis: The Chaga, an alien lifeform spreads out on the Southern hemisphere, eat up the native flora and fauna and turn it into a completely different landscape. Each day, it moves forward 50 meters. and nothing can stop the alien … Continue reading →

Synopsis: Veronique is an anthropologist who has been sent from Earth to a long separated planet to finish her studies and help restore contact to the primitive people. The people of Sckarline reject technology like plastic which they can’t produce … Continue reading →

★★★★☆ Synopsis: Solly is the strong-minded Envoy of the galaxy-spanning united nations Ekumen down on planet Werel. Werel isn’t yet an Ekumen partner but desperately wants to. That’s why Solly is in high regard even though she is a female … Continue reading →

First sentence: No one at the Guiyang airport speaks English.  Synopsis: Cecily is a gene editing professor who searches her best friend Andrew from high school. He’s hiding in a remote province of China (“like the Oklohama of China”) where … Continue reading →

★★★★☆ Synopsis: In the 23rd century, Humanity has fallen in two opposing fractions: gene-editing Shapers, striving for optimised biology and genius intelligence, and the Mechanists, replacing anatomy with cybernetic parts. This story follows Shapers, who have found a competitive advantage … Continue reading →

Synopsis: Humanoid aliens find the origin world of an interstellar world which brought hope for their culture a million years ago. Finally, they are certain that they’ve found it. But what about the mysterious creators who sent out the probe? … Continue reading →