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Martin’s Sci-Fi Storage Unit
A sci-fi story depository where you can find my stories archived
Life on Mars
The Travelling Times
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As the projectile neared
As the projectile neared
A fear
Martin French
Oct 17
An Audience in The Dark Forest
An Audience in The Dark Forest
A worst case scenario
Martin French
Jul 11
The Honest Stove
The Honest Stove
A Warning
Martin French
Nov 8, 2022
Bruv?
Bruv?
A Surprise
Martin French
Sep 25, 2022
The Old Man at The Movie Theater
The Old Man at The Movie Theater
A laugh
Martin French
Sep 13, 2022
Martin’s Sci-Fi Storage Unit is Open
Martin’s Sci-Fi Storage Unit is Open
It’s a place where I keep my sci-fi stuff
Martin French
Aug 29, 2022
The beings known as The Searching were a religious cult at first.
After millennia, at the Centre of the Universe they discovered a small dim star, orbited by a single planet. There was no life on that…
Martin French
Dec 31, 2021
There was a message in my inbox this morning.
“Our time experiments would be having been verging on success, but the stupid simple errors I am going to will have made through exhaustion…
Martin French
Dec 30, 2021
They believed they would never see home again.
They were rescued by a strange looking being. She took them to their planet, just a day away in her craft. They were welcomed as heroes for…
Martin French
Dec 28, 2021
They watched the planet at distance for a few orbits.
Maybe the debris was intended as a defensive shield, and there had been a war in the system? Maybe it was caused by the war? War between…
Martin French
Dec 28, 2021
She was one of 64,000 models built.
Then one day, she was “liberated”. Humans were funny like that — all anxiety, and then it’s really no big deal just 2 or 300 years later…
Martin French
Dec 28, 2021
Once on a small and distant planet, then still in its superstitious infancy, a bright new star…
That wayward comet destroyed the village completely, and much else besides. This world was aghast: their greatest philosopher, scientist…
Martin French
Dec 24, 2021
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Try the latest tree sensation that has been wowing tree buyers the world over!
Martin French
Dec 23, 2021
There is heaviness every time a rocket takes off.
She strode out to watch. She’d said her farewells, but felt she needed to see them off. She didn’t blame any of them but still regretted…
Martin French
Dec 23, 2021
They met at the oasis at the centre of the largest land mass.
“I am glad to see you”, he said, a gust whipping sand across his face.
Martin French
Dec 22, 2021
— Of course the scumbags in the opposition were always going to try to sabotage our chances in the…
— And equally of course, they managed to make complete mess of things. I’m not surprised in the least that the vast majority of people…
Martin French
Dec 21, 2021
As their people travelled throughout the Galaxy, they started to truly understand how gravitational…
When their people returned from these affected parts, they were different to those who stayed. Without realizing it these travellers had…
Martin French
Dec 17, 2021
The anesthetic flooded his system.
When he opened them, he was in a different room. More airy and open, brighter, though his head was groggy. More serene than the little…
Martin French
Dec 16, 2021
The Apples of Tau Scorpii VI are famous throughout the Galaxy.
Travel to the planet takes decades, but it is said to be the most beautiful planet. Poetry speaks of the moon’s light dancing upon the…
Martin French
Dec 15, 2021
The wind from the star drove shards of the crumbled planet everywhere.
One fragment shot away fast enough to escape the heliosphere and beyond. It travelled for 3 billion years and more. Had it been able to…
Martin French
Dec 14, 2021
— So somehow, the laws of physics are different in your part of the Galaxy?
— Absolutely! They're different almost everywhere.
Martin French
Dec 13, 2021
The airlock hissed a few seconds, and he alone was between worlds.
He was anxious, but thought it must be the excitement. After the initial overload of Gs, he sensed… something — but he ignored it. As…
Martin French
Dec 10, 2021
Nisa had been coding this thing forever.
She set the fastest speed, and let it sim on its own for a bit. She entered the game a few millennia in. It looked good — various…
Martin French
Dec 9, 2021
–It’s just a routine procedure for going on the mission.
–And it means that I get full sight?
Martin French
Dec 8, 2021
He climbed into the alien craft.
He found what was clearly the control deck. Everything was so much smaller than he expected — they must be about half the size of the…
Martin French
Dec 7, 2021
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