CK - Science Fiction 96

I see what other eyes miss. Sometimes I see too much. Sometimes I do not see enough. The sky crackles like popcorn. Wind blows and rain begins to fall. Sarah walks home with her camel colored rain c……続きを見る

Harker and his intrepid crew look for a new home in the Sea of Morning Opals on Venus… 続きを見る

Alicia is an average young girl that is suddenly plunged into a post-apocalyptic world when a nuclear bomb wipes her town of Montreal. Alone in her shelter, she knows that she will run out of food ……続きを見る

In the beginning... ... there was Egan Drake, the genius who dreamed of spreading mankind among the galaxies. Then came Megan, who took on her brother's mantle and made his imaginings real. She gath……続きを見る

Larry Thomas bought a cuckoo clock for his wifewithout knowing the price he would have to pay.続きを見る

Ben is a struggling New York advertising copywriter, stuck in a dull marriage. Then one day he finds a Woodrow Wilson dime, which leads him into a parallel world of his dreams where he runs his own ……続きを見る

'No one writing today is better than McDevitt at combining galaxy-spanning adventure with the genuine novel of ideas' Washington Post Book World Two hundred years ago, humans made a stunning discove……続きを見る

Earth was finally entering the galaxy... The 'Allies' had arrived, sweeping down from the stars to offer a jaded Earth the marvels of the cosmos. And Earth had gone crazy. Farmers sat back to wait f……続きを見る

Deep within the wildwood lies a place of myth and mystery, from which few return, and of those few, none remain unchanged. Ryhope Wood may look like a three-mile-square fenced-in wood in rural Heref……続きを見る

When the infant Fenguang He Xingyun, a sole survivor was pulled alive from the rubble of a bomb blast he got that name, Crazy mans Luck. 8 years later and the Earth has only one commodity left, Its ……続きを見る

In an overpopulated world, people retire to dream centers. When the system fails, the only way to wake them is to kill them within that dream. For Dream Taker Randall Faust, a key mission goes horri……続きを見る

The planet Cadwal has an ecosystem unique in the human-explored galaxy. A thousand years past it was set aside as a natural preserve, protected by law and covenant against colonization and exploitat……続きを見る

Nature's teeth just got sharper... Protecting the Earth from the virulent disease that is the human race is their only goal. But as mankind dies a slow and agonising death, those whose mission of gl……続きを見る

From his fabulous palace on Numenes, the Connatic rules the sprawling Alastor Cluster, and tracks the doings of each of his trillion or more subjects. But there is one man he knows nothing about; th……続きを見る

A collection of Vance's outlines, unpublished work, and other items: Cat Island (1946, fragment), The Stark (1954, outline for series), The Telephone was Ringing in the Dark (1962, outline for novel……続きを見る

For all the strange worlds borne of his vast and vivid imagination, Philip K. Dick was largely concerned with humanity¿s most achingly familiar heartaches and struggles. In Our Friends From Frolix 8……続きを見る

It seems a simple quest for a happy occasion: Sir James Eckert, the brave Dragon Knight, accompanies Sir Brian Neville-Smythe to the Holy Land to ask his beloved's father for her hand. But the Holy ……続きを見る

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When George Adams bumps into a planetary blockade, he knows he should turn around and scamper back the other way. When he recognizes the blockading buccaneer, however, he accepts an offer of safe pa……続きを見る

A power has been lying hidden, just underneath the skin of Will Foster. And today is the day it will be set free. Will Foster doesn't exactly like school. The constant taunting doesn't really help. ……続きを見る

In a country of secrets, even a spy has her limits... The Guild recruited Dian Von Camff when she was little more than a child. She’s served this secret organization ever since, performing covert mi……続きを見る

Eighteen years ago, the microbial apocalypse christened Black Ep had virtually wiped humanity from the globe. The survivors of the epidemic have now reached adulthood and are committed to the task o……続きを見る

UNIT is called in when an important diplomat is attacked in his own home - by a man who then vanishes into thin air. The Doctor and Jo spend a night in the 'haunted' house and meet the attackers - w……続きを見る

Eternal life as a cyborg sounded good to Brandon Elliott Keagan, but when science proves the existence of an eternal afterlife, his own eternity sours. Now, BeK must find a way to wiggle out of his ……続きを見る

A look into the not so distant future, where technology has kept pace with man's quizative nature but maybe man is a little too fast in some instances, in that some things once started cannot be und……続きを見る

Believed deceased for many years a striking image of the once courageous youth is seen on an aged man of distinct features. Coming to the aid of the children, he now becomes wrapped into the mix as ……続きを見る

IT’S NOT JUST THE WATERS RISING...Flash floods devastate Britain. But the terror is just starting, as an army of the living dead emerge from the waters to hunt down the survivors. For Katja, after a……続きを見る

When Didier Forneau came to visit me in the French field office claiming Hitler was an alien, I rolled my eyes. When he claimed a new alien has plans for dictatorship and I would have to to save the……続きを見る

In this humorous science fiction satire (a 7900 word short story), posthumans Zee and Dox visit the amusement planet of Earthworld, hoping to get in touch with their human roots. While Zee merely w……続きを見る

Lightspeed is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: ……続きを見る