Byron stared out the round ships porthole at the gas giant beyond, its ring illuminated by the blue sun. It looked almost like something out of science fiction, one of the old serials from the twentieth century.
Of course, in those serials everyone had enough to eat.
Frederic sat down beside him. “Rough music abroad tonight.”
Byron frowned [...]
The train is vast.
It stretches from pole to pole of the vast blue sphere of Jarradhoon, a great ring of synthetic diamond constructed by teh native life of the world. A thin sliver of track supported on hundred kilometre high pillars, and at the top the great train spins.
It was thought at first to be [...]
+++ An Extract from Shckun Nk’thron’Kar, (248595 AS) The Devourer – Most Deadly Of Interstellar Species, Karthram university press: Jigorn; Planet RAktoosh; Lor-kan system; Outer Magellanic Cloud. +++
It was bred to devour.
It consisted of thousands of tiny individual cells that swarmed across it’s prey. But although it appeared to be multiple individuals, and the individual [...]
Sorry about the lack of story-ism yesterday guys, I was sick.
I woke up early to the rhythmic buzzing of the alert-bees, and one of them flew in front of my face, clutching a sheet of ultra-light paper. It held all of my daily tasks, prescribed either by the governers or myself. I sighed and stepped [...]
Bjorn looked out of the tiny window onto the ill-lit ground. The pressure tent was spacious when it was first inflated – he had seen it personally – but now all of their equipment and supplies had been put inside it seemed cramped. He lay in the tiny cot by the window, his wife at [...]
The sky was dark.
Normally there were stars or moons overhead, or the great god-planet taking up most of the sky, but not tonight.
Grarl’s eyes could see the infra-red spectrum easily. If there were clouds, he would see them. And yet – nothing. He had entered his hibernation on a moonlit night. Now, following one whole [...]
The dillapidated walls that surrounded him shook with the rage of the passing army, their rhythmic chanting shaking him to his core. A glance out of the window showed that now elite mecha suits were passing, white ceramics and metal adorning the outside of their robotic skeletons, their helmeted riders chanting in time with the [...]
He clutched the gun in his pocket, felt his sweat run down the little channels of the grip. He breathed deeply, and stood in line. The old woman in front was paying with coins, and the woman at the counter seemed almost catatonic. Harsh white light with a blue tinge highlighted the purple streak in [...]
And noooowwwww…. the end is neeeeaaarr….
And so I faaaaaaaacee… the final currrrrrrr-taaaaaaaaain…
Y’know, some people say I can’t sing – or rather, that my singing is akin to that of a cat being strangled. An A.I. once said my singing reminded it of an early comms device for interacting over antique telephone lines. Philestines. I guess [...]
Cities rose and fell over the course of its life, whole civilizations climbed to the lofty heights of power and then succumbed to inefficiency and pride. They crumbled to barbarism, and new cities rose in their places, finally consolidated as massive empires which fell again.
It found it amusing to watch them rise and fall, as [...]