Coke is it: the best-known commercial product in human history. Uh huh! It’s the real thing. And – for the first 15 years of its life – it contained the…
Science Fiction
Where Is Japan, And When?
I am a writer, and so I write. I tell myself this—often—to explain why I persist in my scribbling. For I may fill sheet after sheet with hurried recollections, I…
Always the Young Alien
I don’t know why, but lecturing the extraterrestrials unnerved me. Oh, they assumed the respectful attitude—tentacles tucked beneath scaly feet—and rarely spoke. But if they objected to the lecture, they…
Demon’s Orbit
“The idea of Laplace’s demon was that if you had had some kind of intelligence with enough processing jam and enough triv about this moment, it’d be able to see…
Fragile
Peer Review of the Treatment of Homo sapiens at the Qortang Xenological Observatory Abstract:It is now common knowledge that on date 765.22:45 Qooroou Silicon Virus was found present in 87%…
The Wire
The knock at his door was expected. It was the short, rotund man he found in the hallway outside his apartment when he answered the knock, that surprised Evan. Dark…
Drive, It Said
This story, read by the author, may be listened to here. It was half-past twelve when the Thing slid into my back seat. A fellow sees all kinds in this…
P2=A2 Sin 2ø
Nullity, lethe, preoccupy. And fear comes over me. Heavy shadows slipping from corners, quickly sliding, cover my face. A thick blanket falls and suffocates. Shadows of death, everywhere, leave…
Poetry: John Grey
GATHERER I walk across the endless dry oceansof this planet,gathering rocks in sacks,thinking how if this were earthand I were wandering over its sea bedsI would have drowned by this.…
No Virtue in Virtuality
A croc exhaled at a nearby table, streaming a rainbow mist worthy of a Lucky Charms cereal box. A feathered woman sat next to me, close enough to scrape my…