Science Fiction Stories

America's greatest weapon, greater than the Atom Bomb, was its new, gigantic mechanical brain. It filled a whole mountain--and then it came to life...!

Err. maybe it had to do with this being a non-Parity universe, perhaps? Some things can't be simply inverted, after all....

The general was bucking for his other star--and this miserable contraption bucked right back!

A man, identified only as the Chemist, discovers a microscopic world inside a golden ring. Soon, he becomes transfixed with a girl he observes there and determines to shrink himself down and find her. He does this by inventing two drugs, one pill to make him smaller and one pill to make him bigger. He then tells this plan to a group of friends, and asks them to safeguard the ring while he is away. Once he returns, he tells them all the story of his adventures inside the world of the ring.

They didn't have to worry about a thing for the rest of their natural lives....

Vogel started with crossword puzzles. and worked his way up to Man's greatest enigma!

Zarlah the Martian is narrated by a young scientist who had hoped to make his fortune creating an unbreakable substitute for glass. By happy accident, he invented a device which allowed him to intercept communications from Mars.

A short tale of relationships: faithful vs fractious, human and automaton, father vs son. A companion story to The Brothers Keeper. ~ 2,900 words.

Things go bad for a magick user, very bad.

Warning: never let anyone point any weapon at you; even something as harmless-looking as a water pistol--it may be a Cooling gun!