Today I present two flash fiction stories from the web site New Scientist. Usually the flash fiction stories I read are written by up-and-coming authors, but these are by a couple of very well known science fiction writers: Stephen Baxter and Paul McAuley! Both of these stories go out on the limb a little bit and propose that humanity is really messing things up – both cosmologically and environmentally – and then imagine ways that things can be fixed. So, if your feathers get ruffled somewhat then maybe that is a good thing – at least one of my readers will be glad to hear it!
A hundred years in the future a simulation of William Thomson has been created to answer one all important question – and it is an answer that humanity desperately needs to learn!
Read Kelvin 2.0 online for free.
A young woman whose great-grandparents were victims of global warming strives to make the world a better place – in more ways than one!
Read Penance online for free.
Special thanks to Free SF Reader for recommending both of these stories. And if you like them then take a look at the other stories I’ve read by Stephen Baxter and Paul McAuley.
Have a great weekend!
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I actually bought the issue of New Scientist these flash stories were in.