Collision Detection

They sit cross-legged, facing each other, six thousand miles apart. Then he…

Respect Is Burning

Originally published in Esquire, issue #3151, March 23rd, 2064.

Situational Programming — The Icarus Project

A Deep Space Adventure

Part One…

Leaps, Bounds, and Falls

Strong AI never shows up. It turns out it’s just too hard to code human-like cognition from scratch. By the same…

San Fran to New York

Romance on a plane. A short story.

Pueblo, Colorado. 1993.

An Internet story.

Intelligence Test (1 of 3)

genre: science fiction

The Universal Gardener

Thanatos

The prison was even more imposing than he had imagined. Emboweled within his 100 foot high ruckgonian garden laser, manipulating its extended arms, Ethan cut through the black crust surrounding the thousand high walls of Thanatos prison. Plowing…

A Simulation of a Simulacrumdomling

By Joel Wright

Novem (Chapter 1)

It’s 8:54 AM. Time for the game to begin.

He rolls out of bed and onto the floor — quite literally — in the belief that the 22 inch drop will jar his sinuses and accelerate the process of waking up.