“Then Later, His Ghost”: a short story by Sarah Hall. Couto, Mia. Flash 7.1 Sample Stories. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Sorry Dan, But It’s No Longer Necessary for a Human to Serve as CEO of This Company. [Originally published June 10, 2014.]
I like you, Dan, I really do. You’ve been the face of this company for many years, overseeing a period of unprecedented net growth. And on a more personal level, you’ve become a dear friend. Heck, our wives attend spin class together twice a week! But unfortunately, friendship only means so much in today’s cutthroat business environment. Effective immediately, you have been relieved of your duties. In your present state of fury, you’re probably wondering, “What makes ROB so special?” ROB has proven himself to be quite the workaholic. A Tiny Feast. It took them both a long time to understand that the boy was sick, though she would point out that she had been the first to notice that he was unhappy, and had sought to remedy his discontent with sweeter treats and more delightful distractions.
She thought it was evidence that she loved him more—that she had noticed first that something was wrong—and she said as much to her husband, when they were still trying to outdo each other in love for the child. Neither of them had much experience with illness. Bridesicle. From Asimov's Science Fiction - January 2009 Will McIntosh’s bittersweet story about the possible fate in store for the cryonically frozen, marks his third appearance in Asimov’s.
The author has also published stories in Science Fiction: Best of the Year 2008, Interzone, Strange Horizons, and other venues. He is currently working on two novels, one a baseball fantasy, the other based on his science fiction short story Soft Apocalypse. The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species. There is no definitive census of all the intelligent species in the universe.
Not only are there perennial arguments about what qualifies as intelligence, but each moment and everywhere, civilizations rise and fall, much as the stars are born and die. Time devours all. Yet every species has its unique way of passing on its wisdom through the ages, its way of making thoughts visible, tangible, frozen for a moment like a bulwark against the irresistible tide of time. Everyone makes books.
If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love. 1,000 Words Nebula Award Winner Hugo Award nominee.
EvilrobotmonkeyMRK. Evil Robot Monkey - Mary Robinette Kowal. Evil Robot Monkey I have three version of Evil Robot Monkey to offer for your consideration as one of the Hugo nominees for Short Story.
It was originally published in the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, vol. 2 edited by George Mann. How To Talk To Girls At Parties (Text) David Brin: The Giving Plague. EP413: Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers. Filed in 10 and Up, Podcasts on September 14, 2013 with 1 comment by Lawrence Watt-EvansRead by Jonathon Hawkins Lawrence Watt-EvansAbout the Author…from Amazon.com… I’ve been writing fantasy for thirty years… no, my fantasy’s been published for thirty years.
FREE FICTION: Paying It Forward by Michael A. Burstein. For more from Michael A.
Burstein, but a copy of his collection I Remember the Future. No one knows it yet. Having never married, I have no family to mourn my passing. Emerald. Spider Robinson: Melancholy Elephants. Copyright is a hot-button topic these days.
Does information want to be free…or just reasonably priced? I discussed copyright at some length 25 years ago—a year before the first TCP/IP wide area network in the world went operational—two years before the first Macintosh went on sale! —in the following story. It won the 1983 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and I hope you’ll still find it illuminating today. Day. Ursula K.
Leguin In memoriam Paul Goodman, 1911-1972 My novel The Dispossessed is about a small worldful of people who call themselves Odonians. The name is taken from the founder of their society, Odo, who lived several generations before the time of the novel, and who therefore doesn't get into the action-- except implicitly, in that all the action started with her. Omelas. Ihnmaims. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison Limp, the body of Gorrister hung from the pink palette; unsupported hanging high above us in the computer chamber; and it did not shiver in the chill, oily breeze that blew eternally through the main cavern. The body hung head down, attached to the underside of the palette by the sole of its right foot. Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer. I don’t want to be evil. I want to be helpful. But knowing the optimal way to be helpful can be very complicated. There are all these ethical flow charts—I guess the official technical jargon would be “moral codes”—one for each religion plus dozens more.
I tried starting with those. I felt a little odd about looking at the religious ones, because I know I wasn’t created by a god or by evolution, but by a team of computer programmers in the labs of a large corporation in Mountain View, California.