Tag: science fiction

Humans and cats form a psychic bond to fight against monsters lurking in the deep space between stars. This is a subtle and intriguing story of interspecies communication that manages to give…

A madcap night of invention, romance, and commerce in a world where the limits on human decisions have been listed and people are able to follow their whims at breakneck speed. This…

In the aftermath of a one-sided nuclear war, an entertainer travels to military bases in decline due to grief and madness to dissuade any attempt at world-ending revenge. A weird and melancholy…

A club-hopping Pretty Boy is tempted by representatives of a tech corporation to enter the network and become self-aware data. A trippy cyberpunk story of temptation and resistance from the era of…

A retired Jewish couple is visited by a golem-like android, and they unwittingly turn the tables on its plot to subjugate humankind to its will. This is a wonderfully charming story; Davidson…

A graphologist is hired to find a woman who wrote love letters to a scientist killed in an accident at a top secret lab, and discovers a surprising secret. I like a…

A girl befriends a pair of rambunctious kids at a test for their future placement in a cybernetic network, and goes on a quest to prevent them from being liquidated as unassimilable….

A young man in the near future reflects on his grandfather’s passing and the way technology intersects with his daily life. This is an interesting look into the rather mundane effects that…

When the transfer of a person’s consciousness to another planet goes wrong, a human operator of an alien technology has to make a terrible decision. This is an evocative and disturbing story…

An Arab journalist interviews an American rock star who has become a demagogic focal point in a declining post-imperial world. This has fascinating and troubling contemporary echoes – written in 1989, it…