Posts Tagged ‘Science Fiction’
ITERATION 571
“Snow drifted through the hallways of the floating temple, and Tlachoatl shivered. His body was bloated from the fetuses inside it, his faith implants bristled with zeal. Iteration 569 was going well. Tlachoatl scanned the corridor and swung the hungry wood in his hands. The handle chafed his skin, and its obsidian eyes blinking darkly.…
WeiterlesenTHE CANDLEWOOD TRAIL
“Lashkina was going home. She took a deep breath of the candleworld’s resinous atmosphere and allowed a smile to pass over her lips. She was going home. The serfs hauled the last crates aboard the space carriage and tightened the ropes. They had cut a good yield of candlewood and filled the carriage’s storerooms to…
WeiterlesenPHOBOSTEUS
“The curtain rose, and the first act began. Falb stood in one of the claustrophobic hallways of the cruiser, surrounded by other soldiers. The projection screens in the walls had come alive and commanded everyone’s attention. Falb took a deep breath and clenched his teeth. Until a moment ago, the screens had only shown star-speckled…
WeiterlesenWEAPONS OF MASS ENTANGLEMENT
“One day, Panduranga Mohan found a strange plant growing next to her door. It hadn’t been there when she went to sleep, but it was already waist-high, with a big, closed bud at its top. Panduranga shrugged and drove to work in the tourist town. When she returned in the evening, the bud had grown…
WeiterlesenUN COMMUNICADOR CON OBJETOS ANIMADOS (A COMMUNICATOR WITH ANIMATE OBJECTS)
“Pocas personas han hecho todo el viaje desde la Tierra en aquellos días, desde la superficie a través de la atmósfera y directamente al espacio: por el precio correcto, Hakon Ambrose era uno de ellos.” Published in: El futuro del ayer, hoy, Año 3, Número 1 (July 2020)
WeiterlesenTHE MELODIC TRAVELS OF A MAN SELLING LIVES
“Marcus smiled when he was happy and also when he was sad–he smiled when he made people laugh and when he made them cry. Every day at work, he changed people’s lives with a smile: when he sold them new costumes to slip into, consisting not of seams and fabric but of intangible concepts, of…
WeiterlesenPHOBOSTEUS
“The curtain rose, and the first act began. Falb stood in one of the claustrophobic hallways of the cruiser, surrounded by other soldiers. The projection screens in the walls had come alive and commanded everyone’s attention. Falb took a deep breath and clenched his teeth. Until a moment ago, the screens had only shown star-speckled…
WeiterlesenGENRE-EXPERIMENTE: CORDWAINER SMITH
“Cordwainer Smith entwirft in seiner Science-Fiction eine eigentümliche und faszinierende Zukunftsvision, die an Fremdartigkeit kaum zu überbieten ist: eine Zukunftsvision, die nicht hauptsächlich technologischer, sondern sozio- und psychologischer Natur ist, und in deren Zentrum die Wiederentdeckung der Menschheit steht. Smiths Erzählungen sind bemerkenswert in ihrem Schreibstil, ihrer Struktur und ihren Inhalten, und wie sein eigenes…
WeiterlesenA FEAR OF FALLING (Podcast)
Narrated by Tatiana Grey. “The shuttle bay opened, and the automated voice of the ship reminded them to debark quickly and orderly, to not leave anything or anyone behind. “Stay close, join your hands.” Jenarah tried to keep her family together–grandfather, the four cousins, her younger brother, her older brother, uncle Yobdan–and stepped out on…
WeiterlesenTHE FUTURE IS ALWAYS PERFECT
“Don’t you wish you would never make a wrong decision? With FuturePreviewTM, you never do – because you always know what the future brings. Daryl owned a FuturePreviewTM, and he used it every day. Just the basic version, not one of those new models that displayed all the numbers: percentage of happiness gained, expected income,…
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