“Why do you keep calling it that?” “Because it is one,” the project foreman rasps. “Left Earth with a thousand…

“There’s no diagnostics port!” “What?” “No port! Just some kind of organic skin layer where the port should be.” “Check…

My alarm blared: February 2, 7:30 am. I had another long day ahead of me. At work, I intercepted Mary…

Those first A.I.-generated stories were laughably bad, weren’t they? Foolish coders fed script after script into the algorithm, hoping to…

I knew my grandfather fought in the war, but not the details. “Best if you don’t know,” he’d say.  When…

Flickering LEDs on the ranks of coffin-sized boxes softly illuminated the vast warehouse. “We tell them Neurocrypto utilizes the idle…

In space no one can hear you scream, but you can see the attempt through the porthole in the airlock.…

“You…” pondered one. “You…” realized the other. They met eyes, gazing longingly across an immeasurable distance, a once infinite expanse…

“Settle down,” said Jasa, directing the muleship via the vocal transponder sewn into her trachea. The data that waterfalled across…