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Not just rockets & robots...

"Science Fiction" means—to us—everything found in the science fiction section of a bookstore, or at a science fiction convention, or amongst the winners of the Hugo awards given by the World Science Fiction Society. This includes the genres of science fiction (or sci-fi), fantasy, slipstream, alternative history, and even stories with lighter speculative elements. We hope you enjoy the broad range that SF has to offer.

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Friday Features from 2011

Chit Win

By Deborah Walker • Short Story • Published on Dec 30, 2011 • Topic: Other Worlds

Don Sebastian's Treasure

By Colin Harvey • Long Short Story • Published on Dec 23, 2011 • Topic: Fantasy

The Black Spirits Which Rage In The Belly Of Rogue Locomotives

By Rahul Kanakia • Short Story • Published on Dec 16, 2011 • Topic: Slipstream

Character is What You Are

By Michael R. Fletcher • Long Short Story • Published on Dec 9, 2011 • Topic: Virtual Reality

The Girl in the Next Room is Crying Again

By Peter M Ball • Short Story • Published on Dec 2, 2011 • Topic: Parapsychology

Sand-Child

By Marie Croke • Short Story • Published on Nov 25, 2011 • Topic: Fantasy

Meet Archive

By Mary E. Lowd • Short Short • Published on Nov 18, 2011 • Topic: Robots & Computers

Fields of Ice

By Jay Caselberg • Short Story • Published on Nov 11, 2011 • Topic: Magic & Wizardry

And The

By Alyc Helms • Long Short Story • Published on Nov 4, 2011 • Topic: High Fantasy

I Kill Monsters

By Nathaniel Matthews Lee • Short Story • Published on Oct 28, 2011 • Topic: Monsters

Sea Charm

By Ann Chatham • Short Story • Published on Oct 21, 2011 • Topic: Monsters

Free Lunch

By Will McIntosh • Novelette • Published on Oct 14, 2011 • Topic: Disaster

A Concert of Flowers

By Kate O'Connor • Short Story • Published on Oct 7, 2011 • Topic: Biotech

Wonder

By Matthue Roth • Short Story • Published on Sep 30, 2011 • Topic: Superhero

Volition

By Alec Austin • Short Story • Published on Sep 23, 2011 • Topic: Future Societies

The Ritual of Names in Prague in the Last Days of the New Empire

By Bernie Mojzes • Short Story • Published on Sep 16, 2011 • Topic: Disaster

Requiem Duet, Concerto for Flute and Voodoo

By Eugie Foster • Long Short Story • Published on Sep 9, 2011 • Topic: Religious

Now Until

By Jonathan Fredrick Parks • Short Story • Published on Sep 2, 2011 • Topic: Space Travel

Inside Things

By Melissa Mead • Short Story • Published on Aug 26, 2011 • Topic: Monsters

What Never Happened to Kolay

By Patricia Russo • Short Story • Published on Aug 19, 2011 • Topic: Other Worlds

How Amraphel, the Assistant to Dream, Became a Thief, Lost His Job, and Found His Way

By Scott Edelman • Long Short Story • Published on Aug 12, 2011 • Topic: Religious

The Last Librarian: Or a Short Account of the End of the World

By Edoardo Albert • Short Story • Published on Aug 5, 2011 • Topic: Future Societies

The Large People

By Karen Heuler • Short Story • Published on Jul 29, 2011 • Topic: Slipstream

Forever Sixteen

By Amy Sundberg • Short Story • Published on Jul 22, 2011 • Topic: Magic & Wizardry

Still Life

By A.C. Wise • Long Short Story • Published on Jul 15, 2011 • Topic: Clones

Filling up the Void

By Richard E. Gropp • Long Short Story • Published on Jul 8, 2011 • Topic: Biotech

Barnaby: Or, As Luck Would Have It

By K.G. Jewell • Long Short Story • Published on Jul 1, 2011 • Topic: SF/Fantasy

The Artwork of the Knid

By John Parke Davis • Short Story • Published on Jun 24, 2011 • Topic: Aliens

The Three Laws of Zombie

By Lavie Tidhar • Short Story • Published on Jun 17, 2011 • Topic: Monsters

Made of Cats

By Judith Tarr • Short Story • Published on Jun 10, 2011 • Topic: Biotech

Apology

By Sam Ferree • Short Story • Published on Jun 3, 2011 • Topic: Time Travel

Cloaks and Gloves

By Patricia Russo • Long Short Story • Published on May 27, 2011 • Topic: Fantasy

A study in flesh and mind

By Liz Argall • Short Story • Published on May 20, 2011 • Topic: Science Fiction

As Fast As You Can

By Nathaniel Matthews Lee • Long Short Story • Published on May 13, 2011 • Topic: Superhero

Values, Vision and Mission

By James Van Pelt • Short Story • Published on May 6, 2011 • Topic: Modern Fantasy

The Beauty Garden

By Damon Shaw • Long Short Story • Published on Apr 29, 2011 • Topic: High Fantasy

The Ambiguity Clock

By Lavie Tidhar • Short Story • Published on Apr 22, 2011 • Topics: Nanotech & Clones

The Elevator

By Erik M Igoe • Short Story • Published on Apr 15, 2011 • Topic: Future Societies

outer rims

By Toiya Kristen Finley • Short Story • Published on Apr 8, 2011 • Topic: Disaster

The Blue Room

By Jason Sanford • Long Short Story • Published on Apr 1, 2011 • Topic: Aliens

Trust

By David D. Levine • Short Story • Published on Mar 25, 2011 • Topic: Disaster

Newfangled

By K.G. Jewell • Short Story • Published on Mar 18, 2011 • Topic: High Fantasy

Shark's Teeth

By T.A. Pratt • Long Short Story • Published on Mar 11, 2011 • Topic: Magic & Wizardry

Epinikion

By Desmond Warzel • Short Story • Published on Mar 4, 2011 • Topic: Aliens

The Mysterious Barricades

By Lyn C.A. Gardner • Short Story • Published on Feb 25, 2011 • Topic: Monsters

Rinse or Repeat

By Sylvia Hiven • Short Story • Published on Feb 18, 2011 • Topic: Magic & Wizardry

The Birdcage Heart

By Peter M Ball • Short Story • Published on Feb 11, 2011 • Topic: Slipstream

Imaginary Enemies

By Colum Paget • Long Short Story • Published on Feb 4, 2011 • Topic: Biotech

On Paper Wings

By Victoria Sonata • Long Short Story • Published on Jan 28, 2011 • Topic: Other Worlds

Standing Next to Heaven

By Terra LeMay • Long Short Story • Published on Jan 21, 2011 • Topic: Parapsychology

A Song Never Tasted

By Barbara A. Barnett • Short Story • Published on Jan 14, 2011 • Topic: Fantasy

Bit Storm

By Lancer & Shelli Kind • Novelette • Published on Jan 7, 2011 • Topic: Nanotech

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