The True Darkness is a 2010 short story by Pamela Sargent, about an odd power failure that frightens a couple in their home.
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“Raiders of the Universes” is a 1932 science fiction novelette by Donald A. Wandrei. It is about an astronomer who discovers a vicious, universe-conquering race of aliens headed for Earth!
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Find out what happens when people start being polite and start getting real — in space.
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The Nearest Thing by Genevieve Valentine is a 2011 short story about a man trying to create Artificial Intelligence.
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"Join" is a 2011 science fiction short story by Liz Coleman. It is about a man who has a romantic relationship with some aliens that are invading our solar system!
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The Mad Scientist’s Daughter is a 2010 short story by Theodora Goss about the daughters of several famous madmen we are all familiar with.
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"The Beautiful People" is a 1952 science fiction short story by Charles Beaumont. It is about a normal young woman who refuses to have surgery to make her beautiful, and all the problems that causes!
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a novella published in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a well known story about a man with a dual personality.
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This is a guest post by Timothy Darling.

Doctor Hugo Pinero invents a device for measuring the length of life and predicting the date and time of death. This leads to the protests of insurance companies and the potential collapse of the industry, not to mention many personal concerns, and the dilemma of a humanity confronted with knowledge that they perhaps should not have.
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Men Are Trouble, a novelette written by James Patrick Kelly, is about a private investigator trying to discover why a woman committed suicide just after she got married.  To another woman.  In a world without men.
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"Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order" is a 2011 science fiction short story by Damien Broderick. It is about a husband and wife team who travel through time to help prevent disastrous events from occurring.
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Gossamer, a 1995 short story by Stephen Baxter, begins when two women crash land on Pluto when the wormhole they were traveling through suddenly collapses.
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"The Elephants of Poznan" is a 2000 science fiction novelette by Orson Scott Card. It is about a man who lives in a post-apocalyptic Polish city and the strange visitors he receives.
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"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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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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