Happy 2nd birthday to me and my web site! Yep, two years ago today was the start of all the fun and mayhem that is known as BestScienceFictionStories.com. It has been a good and fun two years. Feel free to bake me a cake (I like chocolate), buy me a gift (I [...]

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!

“Little Lost Robot” is a 2008 science fiction short story by Paul McAuley. It is about a huge robotic war machine that cruises the galaxy destroying all intelligent life forms it finds.

“Second Skin” is a 1997 science fiction novelette by Paul J. McAuley. It is about a man who visits Proteus as a secret spy of a trade delegation.

The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction is a 2005 science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois. It contains thirty six of the best science fiction short stories collected in the series from 1984 – 2004.