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Science Fiction

Aliens (183 stories)

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Clones (27)

Disaster (94)

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The Alphabet Quartet (26)

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Postmark Andromeda (9)

The Future of Future Planning (6)

Dear Jezzy (12)

Tasting Menu (5)

Tales of the Rose Knights (24)

Careers for Magical Creatures (10)

Captain Percina Saunders (10)

Clickbait for Paranormals (7)

Alien Salvage (5)

From Diaspora to New Jupiter (6)

Childhood at Crossroad Station (6)

Cara Watt, P.I. (12)

Maradia's Robot (6)

The League of Magical Felines (5)

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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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Stories Published December 2019

Objects Left Behind at the Sea of Tranquillity Public Library

By Eleanor R. Wood • Flash • Published on Dec 31, 2019 • Topic: Other Worlds

Uncertainty

By Louise Easter • Flash • Published on Dec 30, 2019 • Topic: Time Travel

Vacation Station

By Nina Kiriki Hoffman • Short Short • Published on Dec 27, 2019 • Topic: Nanotech

Indirect Translation

By George Hurst • Flash • Published on Dec 26, 2019 • Topic: Aliens

Last on Santa's List

By Hailey Piper • Flash • Published on Dec 25, 2019 • Topic: Fantasy

Zombie Apoc-Christmas

By Gina Burgess • Flash • Published on Dec 24, 2019 • Topic: Monsters

A Plague of Santas

By Emily Dorffer • Flash • Published on Dec 23, 2019 • Topic: Modern Fantasy

Steel Slats

By James Dorr • Flash • Published on Dec 20, 2019 • Topic: Monsters

The Misadventures of Tom Jones, Time Traveler--Being a dialogue between two hemispheres of the author's brain that is neither uncommon nor blessed with a happy outcome

By Sean Williams • Flash • Published on Dec 19, 2019 • Topic: Slipstream

Growing Up

By Jamie Lackey • Flash • Published on Dec 18, 2019 • Topic: Science Fiction

Comment History for JustAnotherEarthling

By John Post • Flash • Published on Dec 17, 2019 • Topic: Aliens

Highlights from This Year's Festival of Undying

By James Beamon • Flash • Published on Dec 16, 2019 • Topic: Magic & Wizardry

Twelve Deaths

By Morgan Spraker • Short Short • Published on Dec 13, 2019 • Topic: Time Travel

Earxradite

By Luke Saldanha • Flash • Published on Dec 12, 2019 • Topic: Science Fiction

Being Human

By Edward G Kratz • Flash • Published on Dec 11, 2019 • Topic: Aliens

Bot and Paid For

By Anatoly Belilovsky • Flash • Published on Dec 10, 2019 • Topic: Future Societies

The Diplomats

By Tom Jolly • Flash • Published on Dec 9, 2019 • Topic: Aliens

In the Walls

By Robert Reed • Short Short • Published on Dec 6, 2019 • Topic: Modern Fantasy

Recycling

By Phillip Gregg Chamberlain • • Published on Dec 5, 2019 • Topic: Time Travel

Sunlight-Golden Treason, by the Candle's Waning Light

By Aimee Ogden • Flash • Published on Dec 4, 2019 • Topic: Fantasy

Goldfish and Tea

By Bo Balder • Flash • Published on Dec 3, 2019 • Topic: Fantasy

Tenure

By Andy Tubbesing • Flash • Published on Dec 2, 2019 • Topic: Time Travel

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