Tag: science fiction

A team of time travelers intercepts an airplane moments before its crash in order to collect passengers to serve as colonists on a distant planet. A fast-paced adventure set against a truly…

A man experiments with a variety of post-human enhancements to try to escape solipsism and experience his partner’s consciousness. More a thought experiment than a story, but inventive and strange.

A farmstead is threatened by a biohacked organic collective creature with plans to launch itself to Jupiter. This is an insanely inventive and rollicking story; I enjoyed how it throws one insane…

A blue alien goes into a rural diner on a rainy night and offers gentle courtesy to a waitress. This story plays with prejudice and fear, bullies and oppression, in some interesting…

Three people live in the sand-covered ruins of a motel on Cape Kennedy, chased by wardens who are trying to contain a plant-killing Martian virus. This is a very Ballardian story, with…

An artificial boy tries, with the help of his AI teddy bear, to express his love for his human mother. This may not be the saddest story in science fiction – I…

A party of men set out in search of women, who have apparently wandered away and whom none of them have ever seen in person. This feels like a satirical sibling of…

On a planet that is being unsuccessfully terraformed, a fisherman and agricultural technician consider a different approach to establishing life. This reminded me a bit of Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Aurora”: an optimistic…

After a strange affliction spreads that robs people of their ability to speak, read, and understand language (to varying degrees), a woman tries to find relatives and encounters tragedies. This story offers…

Told in parallel until they intersect: conquistadors hold the Inca emperor for ransom, aliens arrive on Earth and begin buying up art and cocaine, and a science fiction writer muses about the…