We sat there, scribbling, and crumpled pieces of paper piled up all around us. There had to be an answer, a solution. We were skilled engineers and trained mathematicians and brilliant scientists of all sorts. This couldn’t be the end. Surely the catastrophe wasn’t inevitable. We’d find a way to prevent it ( Read more... )

We got good bang this time. Catch rivalclan by surprise. They flee down concrete riverbed. Left stuff: foodcans, bling, girls. We take. Ours now. We tag bridge for show ( Read more... )

When they reached the site, Kupe looked around. "Hey, Hori," he said to his companion, "do you remember when we were small and this entire hillside was covered with trees ( Read more... )

A theoretical geneticist, an applied biochemist, and a coked-up marketing punk walk into a pharmaceuticals lab.

The geneticist says, "Hey, everyone, these new quadruplet-codon amino acids have some unusual protein agglutination properties ( Read more... )

Climate change begins to reduce the habitable surface of the Earth and everyone is trying to insure their survival elsewhere ( Read more... )

A long time ago, Humanity lived in terror of the End of the World. It had taken them so long, you see, to scrape together anything at all that they were almost paralyzed, on a regular basis, by the thought that it could all be taken away from them again ( Read more... )

I don't know who made the breakthrough on strong artificial intelligence ( Read more... )

I pushed the Button, but now I wish I hadn't ( Read more... )

"Let's go over it again ( Read more... )

The elevator descended no less than two thousand meters. They rode in edgy, uncomfortable silence. They dared not even think, much less speak, of what came next. The invisible servants of the Old Ones were everywhere, watching and listening and sifting through minds that were not careful. The Madness pressed in at all times, at the surface; it was ( Read more... )