Science Fiction

Brian2101

2101 - Nothing New Under the Sun Chapter Five Health Care

Health Care

Health Care TODAY While a number of changes have occurred, many of the issues of the early 21st century plague health care in 2101. Five things continue to drive health care in 2101. They are the attempts at governing particularly the Medical Insurance Act of 2046 and the Social Reorganization of 2082, robotics/transhumanism, genetic editing/designer DNA, AI and instanet’s impact on...Read On

Added: 03 Jun 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 1,622 | Tags: future  fiction  historical  prediction  

Lev821

Prototype

In trying to build a clone robot, what does Charlie have to do to get it to work?

Archie stared at the equipment and apparatus before him. Something simply wasn’t connecting, literally, as what lay on the table was his prototype, his robot. With synthetic skin peeled back around the humanoid form before him, he was attempting to create a human-like automaton, but it was failing. He knew he had all the parts; there was nothing to salvage, buy, or bribe from anybody. ...Read On

Added: 28 May 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 900 | Tags: fiction  short-story  science fiction  general   | 2 Comments

Brian2101

2101 - Nothing New Under the Sun Chapter Four Robotics

Robotics

Robotics TODAY Robotics performs much of the daily maintenance of most things.  They are programmed into most life functions such as home repair and cleaning, transportation, personal items, food acquisition and preparation, etc.  One can choose to do those things or allow the programming to complete them.  Some have chosen industrial looking robotics to complete specialized tasks...Read On

Added: 16 May 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 2,025 | Tags: future  fiction  historical  prediction  

Brian2101

2101 - Nothing New Under the Sun Chapter Three Education

Education

Education TODAY Most individuals and families enjoy a self directed education.  As far as academic requirements, the purpose of our 18th and 19th century education is nearly defunct.  Education programs are more designed to learn how to survive in the 22nd century with significant emphasis on socialization and appropriate means of personal interactions.  The need to prepare youth for...Read On

Added: 14 May 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,285 | Tags: future  fiction  historical  prediction  

Brian2101

2101 - Nothing New Under the Sun Chapter Two Changing Climate Change

Changing Climate Change

Global Warming TODAY The topic of global warming is still regular news, but the focus has changed somewhat. The LB, Lens Bank, has produced the effect of reducing warming, but the two issues surrounding its creation come up every few years. When a permanent member or two of the UN Security Council attempt to flex their muscle the LB sometimes comes up in the conversation. But more often it...Read On

Added: 11 May 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 977 | Tags: future  fiction  historical  

Brian2101

2101 - Nothing New Under the Sun Chapter One Introduction to Brian

Introduction to Brian

Chapter One Finally arriving at my STOP (Short Term Overnight Place) I open my link to our weekly group cast. I joined late today, so had to join the conversation in mid stream. Steve: With both Bill and Sarah going to spend several weeks in Biloxi, Mississippi in September, I would like to stop there for a get together. Is anyone else willing to make a trip there? B^GJo#: I would like to...Read On

Added: 10 May 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 793 | Tags: future  fiction  historical   | 1 Comment

Brian2101

2101 - Nothing New Under the Sun

Brian in 2101 looks back on the history of the world and describes how we got to life in 2101.

  This is the beginnings of a multiple chapter story of what life could become in 2101.  Brian tells the story as he looks back on life from 2101.  Chapters are usually written to cover some aspect of life providing some details of what happened historically and what it means for today (the year 2101).  The chapters will be presented in random order as I have written them or writing them. ...Read On

Added: 08 May 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 1,064 | Tags: future  fiction  historical  

MikeStone

Who Weeps for Cadmus? (Part 2 - final part)

Sometimes a walk in the park is not really a walk in the park.

Chapter 7: A Walk in the Park The flashing arrows turned left, as expected, and when Cadmus and Lonesome turned the corner and saw the door of the hyper-vator flashing exactly where he expected it to be, he didn’t know whether to be amused or irritated. “They must think we’re half-blind fools or clueless children with these flashing arrows and doors,” he thought. He tapped “0” on the...Read On

Added: 15 Mar 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 5,461 | Tags: cadmus  dagu  lonesome  sapiens  rationals  robots  remi   | 1 Comment

MikeStone

Who Weeps for Cadmus? (Part 1)

Sapiens to the left, Rationals to the right, and robots straight ahead...

Chapter 1: Voyage Cadmus preferred flying this old fashioned solar sail ship, to one of the more modern hyper-drive ships, from his native moon’s orbit to Draco.763.3a, the only habitable moon orbiting Draco.763.3. He was well aware he could have made the trip in a couple of hours instead of the two hundred and seventy days, give or take, that this trip would take him, but he didn’t...Read On

Added: 14 Mar 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 5,153 | Tags: cadmus  dagu  lonesome  sapiens  rationals  robots   | 1 Comment

MikeStone

Something Happened

Charlie was beginning to feel pretty mellow when he saw the air in front of him waver.

Charlie Jones attended a party of friends and acquaintances in one of the trendy studio apartments near Washington Square on the lower east side of Manhattan. Charlie brought some beer, one of the girls brought wine. Someone brought some hash and someone else brought some acid to get high on the music. One of the guys rolled a mixture of Cherry Blend pipe tobacco and hashish into a clumsy...Read On

Added: 10 Mar 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 2,650 | Tags: manhattan  telaviv  gaza  party  doctor  missiles  dimensions   | 1 Comment

MikeStone

Little Boy Blue (Part 2)

The door closed and Lem was alone without his parents for the first time in his short life.

Chapter 6: Welcome Wagon It was strange, Evanor thought, that nobody came to visit to see whether she needed anything, not even her best friend Dorka. Not that she needed anything in particular, really. The delivery had not been so bad. There hadn’t been any complications where she was concerned. Lem seemed perfectly healthy. He took his fill of milk at her breasts, God bless him. He...Read On

Added: 05 Mar 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 5,609 | Tags: humans  draco  evanor  thort  javid  dorka  lem   | 2 Comments

Ansaryon

The Portal

What if there were more than one of you

Carin absentmindedly scratched Rubbish behind his ears while the tourist images of Israel scrolled slowly across her tablet screen. Her best friend asked her to join her on a trip, but Carin was unsure, Maddy had cancer, but Carin just got a new job and was broke and don’t know what to do. Suddenly Rubbish’s head snapped up, his ears upright like two antennas. He startled her, and she...Read On

Added: 03 Mar 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,203 | Tags: science fiction  multiverse   | 3 Comments

MikeStone

Little Boy Blue (Part 1)

He’s always one step ahead of me. He’s also one step ahead of the neighbors too, thank God!

A short story excerpted from “The Rats and the Saps” Chapter 1: Mother I guess I’m older’n them hills on this god-forsaken planet. I don’t reckon I know how old those hills are. Come to think of it, I don’t rightly know how old I am neither. No matter. I usta turn a man’s eye. Now I ain’t much to look at. No matter. I’ve had a hard life. I don’t need no man’s pity and I ain’t ashamed...Read On

Added: 02 Mar 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 5,543 | Tags: earth2  andromeda  robots  humans  draco  evanor  thort   | 1 Comment

MikeStone

The Session

A multi-dimensional insane asylum injected into your brain ...

by Mike Stone A short story taken from my third sci-fi novel, “ Whirlpool .” The old man shuffled down the long white hallway in his pale blue paper slippers. Underneath his thin blue institutional bathrobe, he wore the brown striped pajamas that were his hospital uniform. Had he tried to escape by shuffling out of the hospital, they would certainly have caught him because they moved...Read On

Added: 27 Feb 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 4,560 | Tags: insane  multidimensional  stu  multiverse  ellen  lem  psychokinesis   | 2 Comments

Welshdreamer42

Eight Minutes, Thirty-two Seconds

Cassie twitched. She jerked to the right and, fingers flexing, clawed the metal-tipped armrests before her hands flopped limply onto her lap. Light infiltrated her closed eyelids; swirls of colour that expanded and deepened, driving away the dense shadows of sleep. Feelings – a jumble of emotions with no apparent source – ebbed and faded, leaving behind disjointed remnants of panic and fear...Read On

Added: 02 Jul 2018 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 5,984 | Tags: love  fear of flying  deja vu   | 10 Comments

Jimwillhavefun

We Are Kandiskis - Chapter 1

This is the first chapter in a very long book I am writing.

“Oh, what the hell? What the freak just happened and why does it feel like I just got ran over by a bus?” saying out loud and holding my head trying hard to open my eyes and sit up. After what seemed like several minutes but was only seconds, my eyes opened and adjusted to the light. Not quite able to sit up yet, I lay on my back holding my head and try to look around. Something didn’t...Read On

Added: 01 Jun 2018 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 4.88 | Words: 3,765 | Tags: space  travel  race  new place     | 5 Comments

Maxsilver18

Hope in a Barren Wasteland

After WW3, Humans take refuge inside a hole in the ground called a vault

It is the year 3065. The world as our ancestors knew it will never be the same because of the last three World Wars, spanning from 2993 to 3025. The greed of resources was the catalyst of these malicious acts that resulted in an all out nuclear war, stripping the planet from its abundant life and replacing it with a toxic, barren, wasteland. Very few life forms were left, and if they...Read On

Added: 28 May 2018 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 916 | Tags: doomsday  vault  radiation  

SWARM

CARBON PLANET - CH 4 / 4

Theories about the clouds we breathe. It's a trailer of a novel I am still working on.

Bessie The Lake Monster Chapter 4     The GM workers continued fishing after what they just witnessed in the sky. The skies are now clear, only a few gulls and a few ducks passing by. The sun’s reflection on the calm, vast domain, rippled by the little invisible wind, and Jesse even gave a little present to Junior, that comes in a small package, “Happy Birthday kiddo,” he said. “Now...Read On

Added: 14 Nov 2017 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 3,011 | Tags: ufo  uso  mystery  monsters  foggy  humid  frogs  

SWARM

CARBON PLANET - CH 3 / 4

Theories about the clouds we breathe. It's a trailer of a novel I am still working on.

The Interview Chapter 3     It is Sunday. July 17, 1983. At the Sinbad Restaurant and Marina; Jacob and Junior are waiting for the rest of the guys at the side of Jesse’s boat. It is six in the morning time, and this is their second visit at the same place this week. Yesterday, Junior and his family dined in for his twentieth birthday, and it was just all five of them. The fifth one...Read On

Added: 13 Nov 2017 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 3,646 | Tags: ufo  uso  mystery  monsters  foggy  humid  frogs  

SWARM

CARBON PLANET - CH 2 / 4

Theories about the clouds we breathe. It's a trailer of a novel I am still working on.

Lisa Chapter 2     Work is nothing but the ordinary; as the large lakes around the factories stay still, and while the black rivers flow to the streams, the road also breezes with cars that the plants assembled. The burning coals continue to fume clouds all over Michigan for another day, and Sacha just turned off the conveyer of where he supervises. The fifty-eight-year-old man...Read On

Added: 12 Nov 2017 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 2,399 | Tags: ufo  uso  mystery  monsters  foggy  humid  frogs  

SWARM

CARBON PLANET - CH 1 / 4

Theories about the clouds we breathe. It's a trailer of a novel I am still working on.

The Glitch Between Billions of Years Chapter 1     The Holocene epoch is where we are on today, and in no comparison to the size of all the other geological periods. The time when the landscape is Carboniferous. I think it’s always been a carbon planet. And it might return just the way it was. Back to the same era, where an amphibian sleeps in months within a humid, wet, foggy...Read On

Added: 11 Nov 2017 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 3,441 | Tags: ufo  uso  mystery  monsters  foggy  humid  frogs  

Vuto_MSK

The Man from the Abyss

Part 1 Dear Mr. Emmet Cartwright, My name is Trevor Miller and I’m writing to you from a mental health institution in St. Augustine. The story I’m about to tell you is the very story that landed me in here, so my expectation is that you will not believe me. It was because of this expectation that I initially decided to leave you to suffer the coming ordeal without warning. On the off...Read On

Added: 15 Aug 2017 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,577 | Tags: evolution  research  immortality   | 2 Comments

Kari

Adventures Across the Starways - Chapter 23

Her imagination flared as she saw herself embraced by Murdock, their bodies sliding together.

Sive watched as Fido and his co mutineers were lead off the bridge. She was hoping she could slip away and take a shower. The past few hours had left her feeling dirty and slightly sick to her stomach! She was hot sweaty and could still taste Fido in her mouth. It would feel so good to get all traces of the vile man washed off her. She sighed knowing she had lost her chance when she...Read On

Added: 22 Jun 2017 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 4,003 | Tags: action  humor  romance  battle   | 4 Comments

Gune

Fallout: Vault 186 Ch 5

Below ground wars don't end...they become more personal

                                                          SHOTS FIRED   James Connolly never wanted to be a police officer. However, after receiving the final results of his G.O.A.T. evaluation the powers that be had made the decision for him, much to his dismay. The police sergeant had always found it funny that the government would at least wait a couple of days until after what...Read On

Added: 26 May 2017 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 2,364 | Tags: fallout  mystery  thriller  drama  action  

fallingdove

Working at the Vend

a sci-fi story about the artificial intellegence administration of a convenience store

Robbie punched the button for a bottle of orange juice with his right ring finger, a checking account, and tapped his watch. The watch blinked red and flashed ISF. He did it again and again with the same result. I can’t believe I’m out of cred . He pulled his screen from his backpack and opened the work page for the vend store he was in. “Dust mop floor,” was the task at the top of the...Read On

Added: 16 May 2017 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 2,306 | Tags: retail  ai   | 3 Comments

spehill

Lines

Don't think too hard

u·to·pi·a yooˈtōpēə/ Noun An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect       Lines. Entry 1)  I should not be writing, or feeling. They tell me that numbness is normal. They imagined the signs, they envisioned the nightmares, and they feared the potential credibility that lay within the pages. More important than their future, they feared their imagination....Read On

Added: 25 Apr 2017 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 1,150 | Tags: strings  time  philosophy  deep  tomorrow  love  questions  

Kari

Adventures Across the Starways - Chapter 22

Sive stuck her head out the open panel with stun gun in hand and shot Darla.

Smithe fell to the floor, suddenly going limp. Darla's breathing started to slow. Blinking in puzzelment, she stared at his still form. " After all that time wanting me, is that all there is?"  She thought to herself as she bent over the unconscious man. She frowned feeling cheated. “Hey we aren't finished,” she cried out as she shook him. Sive stuck her head out of the open panel, with a...Read On

Added: 21 Apr 2017 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 4,444 | Tags: action  humor  romance  battle  betrayal   | 3 Comments

LousyNick

The Book of Love: Or, How The Battle Of The Sexes Ended

He wrote the book on women. And so he ended the world.

Don’t talk to me about love. I wrote the book on it. Literally. And for that sin, I alone am escaped to tell you the tale of the Battle of the Sexes and the End of Man. Okay, that’s not quite accurate. The book wasn’t really about love. But it was about dating, and lust, and sex, and how to facilitate all of that. And there was enough sin to go around - if that girl hadn’t broke my heart,...Read On

Added: 02 Feb 2017 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 990 | Tags: apocalypse  relationships  game  

Kari

Adventures Across the Starways - Chapter 21

"Oh gods, somebody help me!" she muttered as she struggled....

Sive leaned against the wall while listening to Murdock’s plan. She knew he had his own agenda, but for now, she needed him, and his plan needed her. “So that's pretty much it. Any questions or do you have anything to add?” he asked. Sive bit her lip thinking what to say. “Doctor?” Murdock asked raising his eyebrow at her. Trying to keep her temper in check she replied, "First off call me...Read On

Added: 18 Jan 2017 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 4.8 | Words: 3,004 | Tags: pirates  humor  adventure  aliens   | 4 Comments

aliceprice

The Hero

An experimental short story with an odd twist ending

The Hero A thin hand shook him fiercely by the shoulder. Sleep dropped away as his blanket was torn from him and the high, panicked voice pierced into his ears. “Prince Phillip! Awaken at once! It's the princess! You must awaken! Prince Phillip!” His eyes sprang open. The light dripping in from the hole in the thick stone wall was that of dawn, gray and new. He sat up, taking in...Read On

Added: 13 Dec 2016 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 2,103 | Tags: short  novelette  experimental  fantasy  science   | 2 Comments