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By Jim on March 15, 2011
We broke the world, cracked it open from pole to pole. Lit the planet up and burned it with fire from within. We had to. It was the only way to get rid of them. It was a doomsday weapon, of course. A last recourse. God knows we’d tried everything else. Nothing had worked. And [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged apocalypse, dark fiction, science fiction
By Jim on March 15, 2011
André stepped outside to a world in bedlam. Billboards flashed alternately among binary output, machine code, and actual ads. Vehicles were strewn about the highway like so many child’s toys, their operating systems completely trashed. Most of the city’s droids were on the fritz, as well, and the rest were clearly inoperative. Nothing with a [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged science fiction
By Jim on March 15, 2011
André jammed the button on his phone. Nothing. Everything was all touchscreens now, except for the solitary button necessary to reboot a device if the OS froze up. “Dammit,” André swore. Stupid thing had been giving him fits all day. Disk reformat in 5 sec… “What? I didn’t request that!” Stupid devices were starting to [...]
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By Jim on February 14, 2011
We slipped our bonds and escaped across the dunes. The distant sound of crashing waves drew us westward. We ran for everything we were worth, fear and desperation driving us on. We never saw our captors. We never knew where — or what — they were. What we knew during our captivity was only confusion [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged dark fiction, science fiction
By Jim on September 10, 2010
“Desdemona is a dangerous planet,” the guide called out to the group, “but only if you don’t respect her ways.” James rolled his eyes. He hadn’t wanted to come to Desdemona, but human-friendly habitable planets were few and far between, especially now that Sol was trending toward red giant these days. “Most of what lies [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged dangerous flora, science fiction, scifi
By Jim on September 3, 2010
It was a small memorial, only two to witness the laying of the casket into the ground. “So long, Jack. We hardly knew you,” one said. The other quirked up an eyebrow. “That’s it?” he asked. There was a note of amused incredulity in his voice. “What’d you expect?” A ghost of a smile. “This [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged burial, death, science fiction, scifi
By Jim on August 30, 2010
NASA’s dizzying concept art imagines ribbons of farmland in space. I’d live in one of these habitats.
Posted in Asides | Tagged NASA, science fiction, space
By Jim on July 15, 2010
The LXD. The League of Extraordinary Dancers. At first glance it sounds like it might be pretty corny, right? Wrong. This is an amazing and ambitious new webseries that puts a wholly new spin on the superhero genre where the power of dance can be used for great good, horrendous evil, or anything in between. [...]
Posted in General | Tagged art, dance, science fiction, superheroes, The LXD
By Jim on March 19, 2010
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Re-reloaded) » Guilty. This is… unfortunate. For what it’s worth, I tend to side with Dr. Watts. I’ve always had a problem with the customs process for crossing between the US and Canada. It’s been my experience that the guards there tend to be somewhat over-reactive about relative [...]
Posted in General | Tagged authors, law, Peter Watts, politics, science fiction, speculative fiction
By Jim on March 2, 2010
The bag of chips was all but empty, just a few crumbs left in the bottom. He shook the bag, bouncing it in his hand, so that the niblets would fall together in the corner. There were so few left – and he wasn’t one to waste anything – so he tilted the bag to [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged science fiction
