"The Faithful Soldier, Prompted" is a 2010 science fiction short story by Saladin Ahmed. It is about a former soldier who make a dangerous trip to post-apocalyptic Cairo to get medicine for his wife.

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This is a guest post by Martin Dugas. “Flowers for Algernon”, a 1959 short story by Daniel Keyes, is about a human test subject whose intelligence significantly increases after undergoing a special surgery.

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This is a guest post by Timothy Darling. "Lulungomeena" by Gordon R. Dickson Page Count: 24 The story The setting is Frontier Station 563 just beyond Sirius. But the title is named after another place: Lulungomeena on the planet Tarsus, the native home of Clay Harbank.

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Fair Game is a short story by Philip K. Dick, about a man that feels he is being watched by another species.

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Hey… that’s me! I know… I’m doing a bit of self-congratulatory plugging of my own story here – but hey, you can do that when you own the blog!

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"Mirror Girl" is a 2009 science fiction short story by Paul Carlson. It is about a brilliant girl who begins to question the strange world in which she lives.

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[Editor's Note:] Welcome to the weekend! British author Tim Verba has informed me of his latest SF short story – so I’m informing you. I haven’t read this story, but it sounds really cool! Let us know what you think of it. "The cuckoo and the Nth dimension" by Tim Verba – a short story [...]

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[Editor's Note:] Happy Thursday! Here is some more author-provided information that I thought I would pass on to you – this time from author Nicholas J. Carter. While this story sounds intriguing please keep in mind that I haven’t read it. If you end up reading it please let us know what you thought. I’m [...]

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This is a guest post by Tyler Gates. Benjamin William Bova’s “The Next Logical Step” from 1962 is a short and sweet tale about the dangers of U.S. military hardware.

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Author C.E.L. Welsh has notified me of his new science fiction short story – so I thought I would pass along the information to you.

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This is a guest post by Martin Dugas. "Air Raid", a 1977 short story by John Varley, is about time travelers rescuing people from airplanes that are about to crash with no survivors.

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Troublesolving, a novelette by Tim Pratt, is about a man that is down on his luck, and the mysterious woman that offers to help him out.

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"Second Person, Present Tense" is a 2005 science fiction novelette by Daryl Gregory. It is about a young woman who becomes a different person after a rare over-dose on a strange drug.

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