"The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and into the Black" is a 2008 science fiction short story by Jay Lake. It is about a former astronaut who has traded his freedom to work on dangerous jewelry for a Chinese crime boss.

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This is a guest post by Inez Ponce de Leon. What happens if you teach a cat how to talk? Saki (H.H. Munro) answers this question in his short story “Tobermory,” which tells a brief, meaty tale of the eponymous cat and his short adventure with British society. Being a lover of classic writers and [...]

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Something fun today! A little over a year ago I reviewed a flash fiction story called “Chameleon” by Colin Harvey. It was a great story and many people mentioned to me how much they liked it. Well, last week one of my readers, Sam Lemberg, wrote in to let me know that he had created [...]

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This is a guest post by Inez Ponce de Leon I love me a good science fiction story. After all, I worked in a science lab for a decade. My own novelist brain tells me that every corner of that lab has a story to tell. I’ve worked with DNA, organic chemicals, and industrial poisons. [...]

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This is a guest post by Kate Croston Since both of these stories are pretty short and written by the same author, I thought it would be safe to recommend them both. First off, these stories are available for free and written under the pen name Spookysister7. I happened to run across them by a [...]

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"The Frightened Planet" is a 1948 science fiction short story by Sidney Austen. It is about a Cro-Magnon man who is taken by aliens to their home planet.

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This is a guest post by Martin Dugas. “Monument”, a 1961 novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr., is about destructive tourism on an idyllic world.

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"Ass-Hat Magic Spider" is a 2008 science fiction short story by Scott Westerfeld. It is about a teenage boy who is desperately trying to lose weight for his space colonist flight.

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This is a guest post by Angelita Williams There’s a (not so secret) secret to writing great short science fiction that new writers should know about: less is more. When writing science fiction, you don’t necessarily have to possess the intellectual ambition to create an alternate universe or dream up a new alien race. Particularly [...]

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"The Merchants of Venus" is a 1972 science fiction novella by Frederik Pohl. It is about a prospecting guide on Venus who leads a rich couple in search of ancient alien artefacts.

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This is a guest post by Paul Franceschi. “Just Like Old Times”, a 1993 short story written by Robert J. Sawyer, is about a disembodied serial killer who is sentenced to travel back in time by linking his mind to that of a Tyrannosaurus rex about to die.

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"Bubbles" is a 1987 science fiction short story by David Brin. It is about a huge robotic trader that gets stranded between galaxies.

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"Metamorphosis" is a 1915 science fiction novella by Franz Kafka. It is about a man who awakens to find himself transformed into a horrible, insect-like vermin.

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This is a guest post by Alvina Lopez. Most people know of Philip K. Dick’s great science fiction novels, but despite having multiple short stories adapted into feature films, a lot of people aren’t as aware of his large proliferation of short stories. The fact of the matter is that Dick wrote around 121 shot [...]

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[Editor's Note: Author Steve Buick has sent me some information about his science fiction short story, "Diamond Rain", so I am passing it on to all of you. Keep in mind that I haven't read it, but if you do please let us know what you thought.] Description of Story: This is an unusual and [...]

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[Editor's Note: Author Susan Scutti has sent me some information about her science fiction novella, "The Deceptive Smiles of Bredmeyer Deed", so I am passing it on to all of you. Keep in mind that I haven't read it, but if you do please let us know what you thought.] Description: Dawn Theocratis has been [...]

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"The Tomb of the Pontifex Dvorn" is a 2011 science fiction novelette by Robert Silverberg. It is about an historian and an archaeologist on an alien world who make a tremendously important discovery.

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[Editor's Note: Author Karen A. Wyle has sent me some information about her latest science fiction short story, "The Baby", so I thought I would pass it on to all of you. While it looks really cool please remember that I haven't read it. If you end up reading it please let us know what [...]

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"The Hammer of God" is a 1992 science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke. It is about an asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth and the crew that tries to stop it.

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This is a guest post by Rick Buchan. The Nature Of Man. Since the days of Pinocchio, inanimate devices seem mesmerized by Man and obsessed with trying to discover the answer to what it is and what it means to be human. This quirky yet wonderful novelette, written by Roger Zelazny in 1966, illustrates the [...]

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