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Outrun Stories #46
She always had something about her, if you asked me. I couldn’t ever tell you what it was exactly, but god damn, there was just that special little glimmer in her eye, the sheen of her skin, the tone of her voice. Liberty Falls, that was her name, and she held all the cards.
By Outrun Stories8 years ago in Futurism
Suspension
I was tired. Too tired. I pressed the red button on the instrument panel and the machine’s cockpit opened. It was a strange machine that somewhat resembled a tanning bed but much, much, more useful. There was a slight whirring noise as the machine anticipated my arrival. I set the machine for one hour and climbed into the machine. Once inside, I grabbed the mask and tried to strap it over my face. Mine never seemed to fit quite right. After a minute the blinking yellow light above my head turned green. This was the worst part, a noxious, foul hydrogen sulfide gas poured into the mask. I don’t get why they can’t come up with something better.
By Matthew Donnellon8 years ago in Futurism
Empath: Into the Shadow, Chapter 5
October 1st 2016 (Day 1 of study) Will had never been to Massachusetts. He had drove the entire way there from Pennsylvania but any mode of transportation was completely covered and taken out of the check once the paid study was over, so he didn’t mind much plus he liked to drive. He had made it there in a day’s time after spending the night at his grandmother’s in New Jersey. She was getting old and Will knew he was probably still alive because of her prayers and also not to mention the prayers of his other grandparents and the rest of his family. Will had always been the black sheep. On his father’s side of the family, he was the oldest of the grandchildren but on his mother’s he was the youngest. Although being the black sheep, he kept his family close and talked to them from time to time, especially his grandparents because he knew they wouldn’t be around his entire lifetime. What most people don’t know about the black sheep is that they are usually the most successful and special. Will’s destiny was not yet written but in it he would do things no other person could do. He just needed to believe in himself first.
By Jim Kane8 years ago in Futurism
'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' 1.9 The Commuter
I said somewhere in my ongoing one-by-one reviews of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams 10-episode standalone anthology on Amazon Prime that I thought the series was "right up there with The Twilight Zone." I just checked—that was in my review of the third episode. I make quick judgments—but I still feel that way. I even entitled my review of Electric Dreams 1.8 Impossible Planet "Eye of the Beholder," which was the title of one of the best Twilight Zone episodes. Of course, there were 156 episodes of The Twilight Zone, in contrast to only ten so far of Electric Dreams, so when I say "right up there" I mean only that the episodes I've seen in Electric Dreams rank with any random fraction of a season of The Twilight Zone. If and when Electric Dreams gets to exceed 150 episodes—which it actually could, given that Dick wrote 44 novels and 121 short stories—I'll get back to you with a more definitive comparison.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Empath: Into the Shadow, Chapter 4
September 16th 2016 Jeffery woke with a startle. He had dreamed of the hospital again, being trapped in its walls with the recycled air and dirty sheets. He had dreamed of escaping. He got up and sat on the corner of the bed and rubbed his neck and face. It was just a nightmare. I’m never going back to that place. He had spent the better part of the year confined in its hallways and tried not to think about how the doctor said he should have long term care since he had two visits to the ER in the past year. Jeffery had been diagnosed schizophrenic. He was only eighteen but the stress and anxiety of his first semester of college triggered a change in him leading to his eventual withdrawal from classes due to hospitalization.
By Jim Kane8 years ago in Futurism
'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' 1.8 Impossible Planet
I've been saying throughout my episode-by-episode reviews of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, the 10-part anthology of standalone episodes streaming on Amazon Prime, that this anthology has been attracting some top-draw stars. I mean, we're talking Bryan Cranston, Steve Buscemi, Anna Paquin, Terrence Howard, Maura Tierney, Mireille Enos, and the like. But episode 1.8, "Impossible Planet," brings us Geraldine Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin's daughter, first big appearance in Dr. Zhivago) as a woman in her hundreds wanting to visit Planet Earth before she dies.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Screaming Metal (Part 022)
Shake Hands was a planet on the cool side, occupying an outer position of its sun's circumstellar habitable zone. While cold at times, it wasn't completely intolerable. Even overnight.
By Made in DNA8 years ago in Futurism
Resetting Tim Walker
“What number should finish the following sequence? 23, 14, 19, 6 and 20?” “19.” “State the probability of the visual occurrence.”
By Philippa Robinson8 years ago in Futurism
Hero of the [Code]
An old screen flickered to life, lighting up a grungy room strewn will old tech, computers, wires, and half eaten packs of food. A single occupant sat in the dim light of the screen.
By JP Giguere8 years ago in Futurism
Screaming Metal (Part 021)
"Yes, ma'am," Deshel said. "Suen, give me a local structure report." "Holodar shows no man-made structures in the vicinity. Forests withstanding, the area is clean to seven meters off the floor."
By Made in DNA8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' 1.7 The Father Thing
The 1950s were invaded with science fiction in which entities from outer space arrived here and took over the bodies of human beings. Invasion of the Body Snatchers — made into a movie at least three times (1956 and 1978 by that name, and again in 1996 as just Body Snatchers) and many more times as riffs on the same story with different names — is the best-known iconic template for that tale. It was good to see it back again in "The Father Thing," episode 1.7 of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, standalone stories all streaming on Amazon Prime, which I've been reviewing here one at a time.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' 1.6 Safe & Sound
Safe & Sound — episode 1.6 in Philip K. Dick's standalone 10-episode anthology series on Amazon Prime which I've been reviewing here one episode at a time (with minimal spoilers and no or scant comparison to the original Philip K. Dick stories) — returns to the familiar but always exquisite Dick territory of is it real or illusion, in this case the real being an ear gel through which Foster Lee hears the voice of a digital assistant, the illusion being the possibility that the voice is literally in her head, given some credence since her father was a psycho who heard voices.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism