Colonising a new planet is always fraught with challenges. But when your challenge is another set of colonists, and those colonists are from a Death World… your biggest challenge is staying alive!
When virtual reality is better than real life, you can question living when it all gets dull. Fortunately, there’s a new mod going around that’s all the rage. They say you never want to go back…
[AN: Love and props to tkki
who does amazing art. Go follow them. Give them moneys. Also apologies
if this counts as unauthorised reproduction. Image shows a humanoid
figure in black with a skull for a head. Clinging to one leg of the
large, black figure is the tiny white figure of a child]
Halloween.
Ghouls,
gosts, and lingerie-themed outfits ruled the streets. Az had put on a
cheap rubber skull mask and pulled his hood up to hide the seam.
“Cheer up, somebody has it worse than you.” Unfortunately for Rael, he seems to be the Somebody that the universe has chosen. And the addition of a living enigma just seems to add to that belief.
Dogs have been care animals since they were domesticated. Gengineering a dog can lead to interesting new wrinkles when old instincts come into conflict with new programming.
The mail must get through! But when the mail includes 8500 cryo-suspended people, and your equipment is low-bid crap, that courier job gets very interesting. Can one man and his cat save their lives?
Entries into the writing contest need some splash art.
1200 by 420 pixels.
For each story.
I’m planning on putting in ALL my short stories (except RTFM, that’s in the slush pile at Andromeda Space Flight Magazine) and excerpts from my novels,
That’s a lot of art.
And I have the compositional skills of a dead whelk.
And I’m stony broke. I can’t afford to pay anyone. All I can offer is
There’s nothing in the rules to say that I can’t put in some of my other stuff. Any one of my Instants… one of my other short stories… parts of my books…
[fanfic wins nothing, ergo fanfic is right out :P]
Should I do it though? And which stories should I use?
What makes royalty? Is it the bloodlines? The history? The noblesse oblige? For Victor, all it took was one, very special cat.
And a small pair of boots.
I thought I didn't have time for anything more elaborate, so I dredged up one of my old Once Upon A Time And Space tales. Not so much of the sci-fi in this one. But enough of a subtle twist on the old tale to make it
“Echo of another world.” In honor of the stupendous Terry Pratchett and his classic Discworld novels, this contest is asking writers to take us to different worlds with their stories. Pratchett inspired billions of genre writers to expand their minds and their imaginations. Hopefully this contest will reveal some of the works born out of his inspiration.
Fiction in the sci-fi/fantasy genre, up to 15,000 words. Novel excerpts are encouraged; but fanfiction is not eligible to win unfortunately.
