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SF Short Stories
Brief but possible improbabilities...
It would be nice if in the future there’s a version of Studs Terkel going around collecting stories from workers in the Asteroid Belt.
If the Stationmaster hadn't got pregnant when he did...
Ever wondered what might happen if you replied to one of those Nigerian 419 emails? This is the SF version.
The Little Android With apologies to the ghost of Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
Blogpost Seen on etisreal.blogspot.com on November 12, 2009 The truth is online. Maybe.
Where would you live if you had an instant commute?
As the old saying goes: Be careful what you wish for.
“How does it feel to live forever,” she asked...
LADeDeDa First published in the science journal Nature. Be the first to order your copy of RithChek™!
...for the Perfection of Nature Human beings live in a perfect world...
The Others Part of the history of the planet Cibola.
As she spiraled farther and farther from the life she knew, Vivey found herself in a place she could never have imagined.
 I wrote this story in my head while driving out to West Texas from Austin. The story doesn't have anything to do with the trip; driving just lets my mind wander in new directions.
A Tragicomedy in Several Fits Marco just wants a piece of the action.
I tend to wonder what how people would turn out if we didn't keep making such a huge point about the differences between boys and girls.
In reviewing this story on The Fix, Lyndon Perry said, ”The new dynamic is not the byproduct of the typical male way of warriorship. But, then, as the clan discovers, Isabel is not your typical warrior.“
For some reason, I like to set stories about aliens in Washington, D.C.
A story about two woman and a lip.
Any Mother's Son was originally published in the May 2000 issue of Analog Science Fiction and is another in series of loosely related time travel stories. Chronologically, it takes place some years after Heroes and continues the dialogue about the effects of present actions on future events. As one character notes, “You can only edit the present.” The story also delves into the question of how much responsibility one soul has for another.
This story has a peculiar history. My agent, unknown to me, first offered it to Penthouse Publications. My first intimation of this was when I got a note from the editor of that publication telling me that he thought the story was smart and savvy and sophisticated and that he really wanted to publish it, but I'd have to cut a thousand words or so and put the now implicit sex "above the sheets." (In other words, cut story to add "steam.") "No, fargin' way," I replied. If I'd wanted the sex above the sheets that's where I woulda put it. The story was published in Analog Science Fiction magazine. Then Cecilia Tan bought it for her anthology Sex Crime, and while she offered me the option to elevate the sexual content she added, "But I understand if you think that would change the focus of the story." (Cecilia, I love you.) Epilogue: I got a piece of fan mail from the story's appearance in Analog. "I'm still thinking about it three weeks later," the reader said. "It was erotic in a wholesome sort of way." Been my motto ever since.
by Laura Anne Gilman
by Madeleine E. Robins
 By Sylvia Kelso
"The Cretaceous Border" An SF "if" about what you might find right in your own backyard. "The Cretaceous Border" has just come out in the Susurrus Press anthology Neverlands and Otherwheres, along with 12 other excellent stories. Buy the collection on line here.
by Sarah Zettel Be careful what you wish for. Very careful...
A TextonPhone title.
The DEFIANT Disaster What happens if a flipped coin comes up tails instead of heads? What happens if an airplane lost over the Pacific Ocean zigs left instead of right? In this alternate history, one of the most famous lost pilots in history, Amelia Earhart, manages to find land and goes on to write a very different chapter in the history of human flight. This story was first published in By Any Other Fame, DAW Books, Jan. 1994
Departures I wrote two versions of this story. The straight mystery version was published as “Dispossession” in the anthology Spooks. This was the story as it was originally born, however…. It takes place in the same SF universe as“Blow Job Red.”
The Dog at the End of the World This story began when I read a post on the delightful blog Language Log commenting on a grade school workbook that provided the following advice to young writers: “’I have a dog‘ is not a good sentence with which to begin a story.”
by Nancy Jane Moore Available in Spanish as "Verdes en la Casa Blanca" on Breves no tan breves.
... of Communication Among the Unkin This has always been one of my favorite stories, but then, I love a good argument...
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Originally published in the anthology Future Washington.
This story was my second sale to Analog magazine. Stan almost didn't buy it because he thought it was a spoof -- I'd gotten the length of my eclipse wrong. Important safety tip: don't accept facts about astronomy from an anthropology major. Writing and publishing Eclipse was like walking onstage, telling a joke and getting a good laugh. I was hooked on writing humorous SF.
FluffIII was meant to be a normal ordinary catprint... Misprint
by Vonda N. McIntyre, illustrated by Ursula K. Le Guin. First publication: A Book View Café Bonus. The faux-encyclopedia article that inspired the Nebula-award winning novel The Moon and the Sun.
Teenagers know this story is about injustice.
by Rebecca Lickiss This is a short story that first appeared in the October 1999 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
Some people think this is a virtual reality story, but it's really about taking risks.
I got the idea for this story from the sign at the door of my bank telling people to remove hats and sunglasses. But I thought maybe I was overreacting, until I read this news story.
This
story is about economic collapse. Only I didn't write it last week, or
last year; I wrote it in 1997, when things were flush.
 I came across this story's title on a news story online, and decided to provide my own take on alien abduction.
A story in aphorisms from the collection Conscientious Inconsistencies. This story is also listed under fantasy. Readers can decide the proper genre for themselves.
by Kate Daniel
See if you can spot the tiny bit of physics in this mostly fantasy story.
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