The Machine Stops
For a moment Vashti felt lonely. Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded...
Tag: science fiction
Sci Fi Hip Hop
What is sci fi hip hop? Sci Fi Hip Hop is a niche but popular genre. There are legends like Kool...
Breakfast of Champions
The words in the book, incidentally, were about life on a dying planet named Lingo-Three, whose...
Pathetic Earthlings
Ming the Merciless’ desert island discs includes Tortoise, Coldcut, Jacques Brel, Prefuse 73, Keith Jarrett, Aphex Twin, Nobukazu Takemura and Julianna Barwick. Intergalactic indeed!
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...
After The Car
Science fiction author and essayist Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that civilisation could not...
The Handmaid’s Tale
All those women having jobs: hard to imagine, now, but thousands of them had jobs, millions. It...
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...
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.
