Published in Asimov’s Science Fiction June 2015
The title of her latest story was adapted from the name of a shrine on I-95. “Our Lady of the Highways,” she tells us, “has probably inspired a song from every musician who has ever passed...
Five college students on vacationing in England take refuge from a thunderstorm in what looks to be an abandoned church. Once they are safe and dry, they discover the beauty, passion, and power that this sanctuary has to offer, leading to a truly...
Something terrible is stirring in the wreckage of Chernobyl.
The Chernobyl Sarcophagus is crumbling, and the Carapace project to contain the infamous reactor has stalled. Dr Victoria Cox must return to Pripyat, in the heart of the exclusion...
Freedom is Space for the Spirit by Glen Hirshberg is a fantasy about a middle-aged German, drawn back to Russia by a mysterious invitation from a friend he knew during the wild, exuberant period in the midst of the break-up of the Soviet Union. Upon...
Josh is a fourteen year-old boy living in a world where the global economic recession has led to money being devalued.
Three days ago, his parents went out for supplies. They left Josh and his older brother, Archie, behind.
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This is a near term Science Fiction Dystopian Novella. It is the stories of a group of survivors that live through a species ending series of global catastrophes. They are clustered around the shores of a great Inland Sea above what used to be...
Dr. Feyrouz Hanafusa is a curator at Yale in the 23rd century. Space exploration is still ongoing, and signs of life have been discovered on a planet near TRAPPIST-1. Signs, Dr. Hanafusa realizes, that suspiciously resemble drawings in the Voynich...
Stephen Baxter’s The Martian in the Wood, a Tor.com Original
In the aftermath of the First Martian War, in the interim between it and what was to come later, England seemed to once again become a green and peaceful place, if one haunted by the...
It’s been a week since the cargo ship was lost on my watch. A week with very little sleep and not much appetite. Now the bio scanner is picking up some sign of life out there in the wreckage, and it’s my duty to go see what it is. Maybe I’m...