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I don't remember how long I've been in the back of the station wagon. Seems like a long time. The roadside markers, signs, fences, trees all go by over and over again ( Read more... )

Aaaaaand welcome back to the Ninth Annual National Air-Travelers Show, hosted by American Science & Engineering, makers of fine backscatter scanning technology, and your Transportation Security Administration ( Read more... )

"Captain! We have contacts. Three… no, at least four incoming ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, there was an angry flock of birds ( Read more... )

There are all sorts of great temporal-structural tricks you can pull with a space-time-bridging locale ( Read more... )

The fires spread across every major city. The streets are littered with bodies: Ours, Theirs, cops, innocents. The government has fallen. There is no more commerce. The world may plunge into a new Dark Age. But, by God, it’s worth it, for We have forced Their hand. They have agreed to meet Us, finally, and hear Our demands ( Read more... )

I wish I had a global killfile for the entire internet as it arrives in my face in any form, be it websites or twitter or facebook or any goddamn form ( Read more... )

The face on the videolink is deliberately ridden with artifacts. The company will need completely plausible deniability when this is all done; there needs to be no evidence of any sort that one of their ranking executives contacted us for this job. Not even in my memory. The line is secure, the call is on a one-time key - bought out of cash ( Read more... )

By the time he had finished reading the document, his hands were shaking. He carefully, deliberately set it down on the table, then unnecessarily smoothed it out before looking across to the lead engineer again. "So it's true, then? The test run verified it ( Read more... )