Pathetic Earthlings
The question of what Ming the Merciless listens to when bored, between playing with things (before...
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Tag: science fiction
The One Who Waits
I live in a well. I live like smoke in the well. Like vapor in a stone throat. I don’t move. I...
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After The Car
Science fiction author and essayist Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that civilisation could not...
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The Handmaid’s Tale
All those women having jobs: hard to imagine, now, but thousands of them had jobs, millions. It...
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The Dispossessed
“Men are physically stronger,” the doctor asserted with professional finality.
“Yes, often, and larger, but what does that matter when we have machines? And even when we don’t have machines, when we must dig with the shovel or carry on the back, the men maybe work faster – the big ones – but the women work longer… Often I have wished I was as tough as a woman.”
Flowers for Algernon
“I have a right to know everything that pertains to the experiment, and that includes my...
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The Inquisitor
Well, the legend tells of a droid, a self-repairing simulant, who survives till the end of eternity, to the end of time itself. After millions of years alone, he finally reaches the conclusion that there is no God, no afterlife, and the only purpose of existence is to lead a worthwhile life.
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