There was a woman of the Ahara. She came of a good line within the lineage1 and grew up to be tall a...

AD 3948 The people—though exhausted by the tunnel’s cold—had rested long enough, Cilia-of-Gold decid...

A pale dawn spread across the Pacific as my dead mother emerged from the waves. The bloom of algeron...

Capture 06/15/2051, Kerwin Hospital ICU, 09:12:32 . . . and my writer pals used to tease that I marr...

And your very flesh shall be a great poem. —Walt Whitman Jupiter’s immense horizon appears flat as a...

Troubleshooting. A splendid idea, and one that I agree with totally in principle. Bang! One bullet, ...

He was even bigger than I expected. All three of them were. Barb and I watched on the link screen as...

“It’s going to be the greatest symphony anyone has ever composed,” said Jurriaan. “Our best work. So...

If he’d been at home, he’d have thought, Dump Plant Injuries. In the socially unbalanced, pioneer ci...

Through the purple gloom came Molloqos the Melancholy, borne upon an iron palanquin by four dead Deo...

On impact you start to lose the details. The smell of the bright white room you were first held in. ...

There might be better known faces. And maybe you can find a voice that rides closer to everyone’s co...

This is the story of John Leroy Harris, but I doubt that name means much to you unless you’re pretty...

trans-mortal injection: t+1 day “I’m going to lose the ability to dream,” Nur Zaleha tells her best ...

What do telekinesis, brain hacking, and large scale cultural transformation have in common? The Sapi...

I arrived in Kansas City at one o’clock on the afternoon of the thirteenth of August. A Tuesday. I w...

Jieling set up her boombox in a plague-trash market in the part where people sold parts for cars. Sh...

Stonehenge rises like a crown above the horizon, ancient four-tonne bluestones fixed in a sacramenta...

The knife of her consciousness peeling off death in layers: this is how she wakes. She is General Lu...

Adventure Boy was twelve when he met Mechanic for the first time. They had gone to an exhibit celebr...

But the best evidence we have that time travel is not possible, and never will be, is that we have n...

Sit down, sit. You’ll hurt yourself jumping around like that. No, don’t shout. Quiet studio on a qui...

“Go,” Alex said. “If you remember to keep a low profile, neither your father nor his enemies will ev...

February 16: Through the Door Into Summer The Snow-No-More birds appeared in the sky, adding to the ...

The first attack came by starfall, by deathrise. Fire swept out of the darkness, past the great viol...

Diving back into the universe (now that the universe is a finished object, boxed and ribboned from b...

The Swarm is a fleet of at least one hundred fifty dirigibles that ceaselessly crisscross their plan...

Things Laporte says, during the war— The big thing, at the end: The navigators tell Laporte that Ind...

Zipakna halted at midday to let the Dragon power up the batteries. He checked on the chickens clucki...

Note for readers unfamiliar with the planet O: Ki’O society is divided into two halves or moieties, ...