science fiction
The bridge between imagination and technological advancement, where the dreamer’s vision predicts change, and foreshadows a futuristic reality. Science fiction has the ability to become “science reality”.
Guardians: Prologue
Ever since I was a child, things have been a little strange for me. Even before the Briggs academy, I was involved with the military. My “parents”, Christopher and Faren Brown, were Navy engineers through and through. Stubborn, strong, and dead set on helping others; right to the end. I was never truly their son, yet from the moment they found me; they took me in and cared for me as if I was their own.
By Cody Zerkle4 years ago in Futurism
A'tuin Your World
So many worlds, so little time! I thought I wouldn't be able to pick one as the best, but after a few days of reading over Piers Anthony, Mercedes Lackey, Ursula K. LeGuin, and so on I then laid my eyes on Terry Pratchett and it all clicked into place.
By Guenneth Speldrong4 years ago in Futurism
Is it possible that we are living in a simulation?
Is our planet, the cosmos and everything in it realistic? Is the universe nothing more than a hologram, a projection of 2D fields and parameters? Or are we living in a computer simulation of a higher civilisation in terms of cognition and technology? People have been arguing this subject for ages and science fiction has infinite variations on this premise.
By Michael Schwarz4 years ago in Futurism
Control
I am lost in my computer and my computer is lost in my body. My mind is controlled by a series of commands and demands that are keeping me alive. I'm not sure what it all means but I just go on living in a rut of routinely obeying the commands that are put into my mind. So I ask the question am I my own person or am I a person who is driven by a driver that is someone other than myself?
By Rick Henry Christopher 4 years ago in Futurism
Pelican
Toni was relegated to the back office in her later years, though still in her early fifties passing for 38. Management was no longer hiring mid career and the age gap became obvious. When there were thirty and forty somethings she could blend in. Hiring the young grads and millennials, made Toni look more like their mother than a co-conspirator.
By Ellen M. Holtzman, DTM4 years ago in Futurism
The Ophidian Uprising
The Ophidian Uprising An almost deathly frost hung in the air as Svelte made her way down the well-beaten path of the forest. Her feet left no mark on the path, partly because she was a slither of a thing (amongst her people anyway) like her name suggested, but mostly because she wasn’t using them. Her body glid through the air with the precision of a japanese blade, steeled against the cold, not quite able to adjust to the bizarreness of being out of the water.
By Janet Babirye4 years ago in Futurism
The Bradford Creek Exchange
Author's note: The Bradford Creek Exchange is set on the colonization spacecraft The Giant Leap, introduced in Space Diner Proposal and referenced in Alien Honeymoon, Big Earth Journals, and Space Maestro. You are invited to acquaint yourself with the craft and some of the characters by reading those stories here on Vocal:
By Ben Waggoner4 years ago in Futurism
The Quantum Realm
They have developed quantum technology to explain the perception of several classical physics that could not be described as a kind of light. They say that neural brain systems create complex networks and that consciousness is formed by obeying the laws of quantum mechanics, a theory that determines how small particles such as electrons move. Several years later, Schrodinger created a Wave equation, describing the quantum state of a particle or group of particles.
By Max Cavill4 years ago in Futurism
Into the comet
Abraham’s body jolted to the right as the spaceship avoided another chuck of debris from the comet. The navigation control had the target in sight but getting there was going to be a bit tricky. Luckily, he had a great pilot. His confidence in the situation never made him nervous.
By Thomas Hernandez4 years ago in Futurism
