"I can't make it sound more enticing than that," the doctor sighed from behind his desk, dispirited, but Lubanzi was hooked on the idea. A caring robot sounded cool, and it would help him live in his apartment in Claremont again.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Konrad picked up his lance. When the judge gave the signal, he aimed his weapon at his adversary and opened the valve that allowed the steam to flow into the piston. His armored motorcycle shot out across the tiltyard seeking to ram Baron von Kobell
- Length: 29 pages
- Age Rating: PG
The first thing any physicist learns about traveling faster than light is that it is impossible.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
I would be staring past the characters at the painted background. Faraway hills and tall summer trees against a wide horizon. What was there?
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
With her degrees in neuroscience and engineering, and her specializations in prosthetics and robotics, she was more than capable of producing a pair of mechanical ears that would replicate the abilities of true human ones.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
If we had any hope of returning with even a shred of sanity, we’d need to try as best we could to keep a solid sleep schedule.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
“I know.” He gently brushed the hair from her face. “It’s a nice dream, but it’s not me.”
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
And the last time he’d feel his heart thumping, which it was doing in spades. From dread? Excitement? Both, he supposed. Like a bungee jumper. Yes, the ultimate jump. Down, down, down, then up forever. A phoenix from the ashes.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
When Yoana Hernandez decided to become a psychiatrist she never imagined one day her patients would be artificial intelligence.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
They wanted to believe. And they certainly weren’t going to deny their son every advantage for his future.
- Length: 17 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Ed slammed through the front door and looked wildly around the tavern. “Quick! What year is this?”
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
The end of the world tends to have a negative impact on the motivation to complete one’s daily chores.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Set in a futuristic world where the American dream is dead, and corporations are the new government. Ren, a spy for Lone Star Oil and Heavy Industries is tasked with a dangerous mission.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
The whole exospecimen idea started the night Moses Garcia was bitten by an echidna shrew in his sleep.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
In the future, food is boring. Or, perhaps not.
- Length: 17 pages
- Age Rating: PG