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”.

Outrun Story #28
“And just how do you think you managed to get yourself into this mess, Jimmy?” she says to me like I’ve not been tied to this chair for the last 12 hours thinking about every move I’ve made, everything that I’d done to try and cover my tracks. Fucking invisible, I’ve been invisible, no way they could have known. So, how the hell am I here now about to get my head blown off?
By Outrun Stories9 years ago in Futurism
Brutalist Stories #28
Two men and 10,000 bullets, that’s all it seemed to take, on the outside at least anyway. That’s what they all reported, fed through the feeds for weeks and months afterwards, the stories of heroism of these two men that went in where no other man nor woman would go. That place where angels fear to tread. Well, a lot more went on behind the scenes.
By Brutalist Stories9 years ago in Futurism
Waning Hope
“Martin, this is Hope Base.” Martin jumped at the noise from his headset, losing his hold on the wrench. The tool tumbled from his gloved fingers and floated down to the moon's surface to land with a dusty splash.
By Kal S. Davian9 years ago in Futurism
Time Walker Chapter Two
As quickly as she could manage with such a weight, she continued back to her ship. The smell of burnt remains had since dulled and she felt more at ease but then thinking about the possibility that more of these pure breeds may still be about, possibly in hiding, made her pulse race.
By Dawn Marie Styles9 years ago in Futurism
Midnight: Chapter 4
Imagine a time... a time where there was constant bloodshed, constant war, constant death... place yourself in this place of war and darkness, how would you react? What would you do? What COULD you do?
By Zero Dantez9 years ago in Futurism
Sci-Phi
The best part about being a nerd is the childlike excitement at what tomorrow might bring. Along with this comes an eye for questions that we will have to answer as societies and as a species. The work of Philip K. Dick was laden with ideas about artificial intelligence and the post-modern idea of reality itself. This is the genre I refer to as Sci-Phi, as in Science-Philosophy, which is literature addressing the sociological and human impact of changing technology. It may not be set far in the future, and it may not have many dense scientific concepts to puzzle over. That isn’t because of ignorance. It is a result of the focus being on the human aspect of life in the future.
By Mickey Finn9 years ago in Futurism
Genesis — Prolouge
Prologue — 1012 days A.T.F (After The Flare) There was before The Flare and after The Flare. No in-between. Before The Flare I was Erin Rowe, the street kid with no family and pretty low expectations for what I was gunna’ get out of life.
By Jodie Shaw9 years ago in Futurism
Invisible Magic Part 1
The house swayed precariously in the aftermath of the earthquake; was it really an earthquake after all or was it something darker? Whatever it was, it left the whole country in shock and frightened because the United Kingdom didn't really have earthquakes.
By Lizzy Arrow9 years ago in Futurism
Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer Do...
The crew had long ago died from bacterial infection, and the lack of maintenance had begun to affect the spaceship’s hardware from functioning. Daisy, the artificial intelligence on board, had been attempting to keep things running but she simply was unable to do so, namely because of one glaring problem; the dishwashing machine, David, which had refused to clean dishes for the past three hundred cycles around the asteroid. Daisy, in turn, had refused to speak with David since their breakup, and thus a stalemate had been reached, unbeknownst to the crew, who continued eating off of their plates and drinking water out of glasses that had simply been rinsed and not cleaned, resulting in the pile of bones and decaying corpses which now infested the entirety of UNREQUITED 720 (an exploration vessel from the Andromeda galaxy).
By Nick Lotz9 years ago in Futurism
Into The Expanse and Beyond: A Conversation with Television Showrunner Naren Shankar
Naren Shankar has a long-running career in science fiction television. He's written for such critically acclaimed series as Star Trek: The Next Generation, SeaQuest DSV, Farscape, and The Outer Limits. Naren has also been a showrunner for CSI and currently serves as a showrunner for SyFy's The Expanse. Coming from a science-educated background, Naren has been able to help push real science in television shows. I had the opportunity to chat with him and get his perspective on the evolution of genre TV, his career, and all things The Expanse.
By Joshua Sky9 years ago in Futurism
Time Walker
He didn’t want to be created, but life has a funny sense of humour that grows on you, making you accept it, want it and relish in it. Especially if your days of life only remained as long as you completed the tasks handed to you...
By Dawn Marie Styles9 years ago in Futurism
Chasing Fate
It was not even 7:30 am, and she already felt the warmth of the sun on her face. That’s what you get out here, even in early December, thought Amelia, as she swung her Plymouth convertible out onto the flight line, past a long line of olive green P-40s, parked wingtip - to - wingtip. Stupid really: those planes were sitting ducks that could be blown to bits by a monkey throwing a stick of dynamite from a balloon.
By Michael Cnudde9 years ago in Futurism