An Alien in Japan. For the alien, Japan is a pretty alien place. There are all kinds of things which really defy comprehension. One of them being these strange creatures called dogs. Edible creatures. Obviously, this is a science fiction alien story.
A Pilgrimage to Plaka Kalada Ida Brahma is on a mission to the planet Plaka Kalada. She has two problems. One is that if her disguise is penetrated then she may end up dead. The other problem is Doctor Defrock. A story about another planet - an sf story.
Bad Sex Terrence Azlenabek is one of the most difficult people to deal with. He believes in telling the truth, regardless of the consequences. And the truth regarding this guy John Milton? Well, the tabloid press is making a meal of it. This is a story about John Milton - a clone story, an sf clone story.
Basque If the Basque language is to be studied in its ancient uncontaminated form, then the time travelers will have to get moving, fast. But are their observations innocent or genocidally destructive? This is a time travel story - an sf story about time travel.
Consenting Adults The rules of Business-Business are simple: keep your personal life out of it. But Burton wants to see Matilda again. He knows he might be putting his corporate career at stake. But, actually, it's rather more dangerous than that. This is a fantasy story.
Diving on the Wreck Heineman does not have the temperament of a hero. Even so, he ends up diving on the wreck, struggling to save the lives of those not yet dead inside. This is a diving story - an adventure story set in Chalakanesia.
FLASH FICTION - very short stories.
Golgo Molgo A love story and a dog story - if it's legal to keep a flesh-and-blood dog which annoys the hell out of your neighbors, how about a robot dog? That's our starting point ....
Life on Planet Earth Landing at Fort Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, was the first totally inexplicable and utterly alien thing which the aliens did. After the invaders left, the people of planet Earth were left with something else which was extremely strange: each other. This is an sf horror story.
Night on Bear Mountain
Roy Pajelva faces a crisis in the virtual reality world of Bear Mountain when one of the teenagers under his care seems to be dying of hypothermia. This is an sf horror story - an sf virtual reality story.
On the Wings of a Cockroach Jozanna Yu, poet, wakes up and finds she's been turned into a cockroach. Again. And she thinks she knows who's responsible. In fact, there's only one suspect - boyfriend Gregor Samsa. A story about being a poet and writing poetry - a story about creative writing.
Patriots Even if you're a genuine patriot, and Jason is, that doesn't set you free from the need to play the game. And a pretty rough game it can be, too. A surveillance society SF story.
Quilting Some people aren't asked if they'd like to become the enemy. They're just born into a particular community, and that seals their fate. Even so, quilting would seem to be a harmless enough hobby. But it's surprising what can be turned into a lethal weapon, if you're imaginative enough. An SF terrorism story.
Remembering Nagasaki
Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. But an individual act of recollection is no guarantee of safety in the face of a communal drive to destruction. A nuclear threat SF story.
Swiss Toys The question: can Switzerland's quest for world domination be halted? Or are the robots which have been unleashed by the Swiss just too much for the civilized world to handle? An SF story - a story about robot love.
The Angel of the Seventh Apocalypse Fran and Cobril were prisoners of the Memory Masters, the intelligent jellyfish otherwise known as the Kabila Yutenji. Because their memories were limited by a thirty-day decay rule, it was not easy to keep track of what was happening. A science fiction story.
The Suicide Bomber He doesn't think of himself as a suicide bomber. Or even as a terrorist. He genuinely believes that terrorism is not the answer. But, day by day, he has less and less to lose, and more and more reason to take action. An sf story - a suicide bomber story.
The Wrath of Babril Hestek - science fiction fantasy. A spacecraft is going to land on the planet of Velis Tantris. Burning all in its path. A priestess gets involved. Then a god. An SF fantasy story.
UFO Invasion - the Truth about Alien Abductions!! Each year, millions of Americans are abducted by aliens. But why? This lightly fictionalized account of a TRUE STORY supplies the answer. A UFO story.
Upgrade - an SF horror story. This is fairly long, weighing in at 9,162 words. A story about Eric. When Eric was under interrogation by the police, he felt no stress. The police were nothing compared to the Institute. "What do you know about the body?" said the voice behind the light. An SF horror story.
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