Here in the Quiet Dark, a raygun can be your dearest friend. It warms to your touch, responds to your requests, and clears your way. It is the best partner one can expect to have in the Quiet Dark.β¦
Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Tzen sat on the third floor of the abandoned building in near darkness. Only those streetlights that remained unbroken filtered light through shattered windows anβ¦
Today was the day, Kari decided. Today she was going to tell Abe. She was going to have a drink and work up the nerve and send him a message and then he would come by and then she could just tell him. She could take her time and explainβAbe was a goβ¦
βYouβre gone, arenβt you, Pete?β I ask my beloved dog who now stares up at me without recognition. His breathing is fast and deep. There are flecks of blood around his mouth. Iβve been coughing up blood, too. So has every surviving member of the humβ¦
Author : Bob Newbell The spaceshipβs aerodyne engines groaned as the vessel entered the upper atmosphere of Venus. Even after 90 years of terraforming, the air on Venus was still thick and hoβ¦
Author : Bob Newbell βYouβre gone, arenβt you, Pete?β I ask my beloved dog who now stares up at me without recognition. His breathing is fast and deep. There are flecks of bβ¦
Author : Perry McDaid (Falcon) Revelation did not come as a rosy warm feeling of wonder, but a rending, ripping divestment of accepted resentment. It left a vacuum: a void greater than that betweenβ¦
Author : Janet Shell Anderson All our executions are political. Of course, that makes them right, and no one rich or well-connected dies. The poor manβs on his knees in his orange jumpsuit, with thβ¦
Author : James Riser Tetsuo kept a collection of five hundred yen and one hundred yen coins that was worth a lot of money to an antique dealer. Instead, he used them on a noodle vending machine setβ¦
Author : Q. B. Fox The members of Juliet Patrol, 29 Group, Royal Engineers hunkered down in a squat two-story, stone building balanced on the hillside. Lt. Harry Banford watched through the unglazeβ¦
Author : Aaron Koelker I had eaten a ham sandwich the morning we found God. It wasnβt exactly the foundation of great literature. Perhaps they would write in a great feast and how our crew was a liβ¦
The path to the discovery of intelligent non-human life was, for me, a lifeβs journey. SETI had invested billions in high tech telescopes and antenna arrays, thousands of personnel hours and miles of red tape, without a single positive result. via Pβ¦