Tag: scifi
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2024 September 12
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You Wake Up
A creative writing exercise inspired by getting up too many times last night. [ ... 658 words ... ]
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2023 February 06
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The Machine is Grieving
Recently, I lost a grandparent and a pet. Such reconfigurations are difficult to process. [ ... 745 words ... ]
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2023 January 16
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Begging for Treats
Ever wonder what would happen if a Kardashev Type II civilization found us cute? [ ... 1125 words ... ]
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2022 June 23
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Pet Intersect
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 486 words ... ]
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2022 June 17
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Cozy Hyperspace
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 884 words ... ]
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2022 June 14
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Solid State Children
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 497 words ... ]
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2022 June 13
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Vegas Nerves
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 619 words ... ]
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2022 June 12
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Jay's Machine Friends
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 715 words ... ]
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2022 May 18
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Vinge and Vonda
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 949 words ... ]
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2022 May 10
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Megachurch of the Shattered
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 439 words ... ]
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2022 May 08
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Vincent's Voyage
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 442 words ... ]
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2022 May 04
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Yasir's Getaway
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 585 words ... ]
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2022 May 03
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Avery's Deployment
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 525 words ... ]
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2022 April 28
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Finley's Overtime
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 400 words ... ]
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2022 April 19
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Poppy's Metaverse
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 1227 words ... ]
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2022 April 18
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Alexi's Atlantis
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 403 words ... ]
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2022 April 13
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Fiona's Folly
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 416 words ... ]
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2022 April 12
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Charley's exam
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 366 words ... ]
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2022 April 11
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Huey's Great Resignation
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 615 words ... ]
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2022 April 10
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Space Girl Fawn
I'm trying to build a daily creative writing habit. This post is the result of an exercise toward that end. It's probably an awful first draft of a little flash fiction scene, unless I've tried something especially weird or decided to write something meta. Let me know what you think! [ ... 603 words ... ]
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2015 October 28
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Catbearcoin, a web science fiction story
Wherein I write a web sci-fi story about how I imagine micropayments could work. [ ... 1685 words ... ]
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2013 June 11
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Behemoth, Part 1
I’ve been meaning to get myself writing again, so here’s the first rough part of a story that’s been bouncing in my head. It’s a quick and dirty opening scene for a space opera, but I’m hoping to take it in an interesting direction almost immediately after this. A distant sun cast silvery rays through a field of tumbling asteroids and swirling dust. Among the rocks, a balletic swarm of glinting motes danced, alighting here and there to vaporize and harvest masses with actinic flares. The source and sink of the swarm’s flow was a dark, ovoid craft tracing a lazy, eccentric orbit around the cluster of debris. Nestled within the craft was its pilot, Alan Rickard. [ ... 1333 words ... ]
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2013 January 04
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2012 July 30
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Did you look under the couch?
Earth had been a great home to us. But, the Sun was revving up to devour the inner planets, so we figured it was about time we pack the whole place up and archive it. No danger to the human species: We’d scattered ourselves across the galactic plane. There was no getting rid of us now, short of obliterating the whole Milky Way. [ ... 173 words ... ]
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2012 July 03
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Biospheric Xenophobia
“Have you ever seen one of them?” [ ... 193 words ... ]
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2012 June 09
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Homebrew Biotech Club
The homebrew club got real interesting last night. Jerry started dating this girl Maddy, and she was something else: purple hair, piercings, and a load of tattoos. And then there’s Jerry: bearded, balding, and been carrying a spare tire for years now. I can see the appeal for him, but she’s out of his league. [ ... 181 words ... ]
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On the Market
It had been a busy week: she’d had her teeth whitened, removed four tattoos, dyed her hair back to its natural color, and gotten her optical implants updated. She’d also lost 4 pounds, working furiously over the past month in the fitness center on the ground floor of her apartment building. Her body had never looked more toned. She almost didn’t want to leave it. [ ... 183 words ... ]
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2012 June 04
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Lonely Timeless Flight
He kicks back, alone at a corner table in low-g. He nurses a high gravity beer for the alcoholic irony. It’s his fourth, and the faces around him are blurred. Funny thing, though: with his glasses on, the faces would have been blurred even if he’d been sober. [ ... 184 words ... ]
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Stuxnet was awesome, right?
The toaster wouldn’t toast, and the microwave wouldn’t—umm—make tiny heat waves, or whatever it does. The fridge, though, the fridge had slow-cooked everything inside overnight and the apartment stank like delicious death. [ ... 177 words ... ]
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2010 May 19
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Famous Last Words
They told me never to talk to it; it was isolated for a reason. But, like I told them, I couldn’t imagine anything a transhuman AI could say to make me let it out of the box. So, after a post-midnight tumbler of Irish whiskey, I opened up a secure terminal and said hello. What harm could a little chat do? [ ... 193 words ... ]
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2009 May 30
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From Spaceman to Plantsman
The first time the spaceman saw my garden, I thought he was going to strangle me. [ ... 172 words ... ]
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2007 January 22
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A Writer's Toolkit by Rudy Rucker
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2006 August 22
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So long, and thanks for all the Stargate
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2006 January 25
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Podcasts I like lately
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2006 January 19
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Books I've read lately
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2005 October 20
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Spaceship Radio is nifty
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2005 October 16
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Serenity is a Big Damn Roller Coaster
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2005 October 06
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Threshold, the sci-fi with 5 blades?
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