Interview: Chisom Umeh 🔗
<![CDATA[Chisom Umeh Chisom is a Nigerian fiction writer and poet. His short stories have been featured on Omenana, Apex, Clarkesworld, Year’s Bes [...]
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Silly Asses (1958) - Isaac Asimov 🔗
<![CDATA[A nuclear explosion. The people of Earth develop nuclear power. Naron, a long-lived Rigellian who serves as the Keeper of galactic records [...]
Examination day (1958) - Henry Slesar 🔗
<![CDATA[A drawing of a telephone. A boy takes a national intelligence test. His parents wait by the phone. Not a word is wasted in this very short [...]
Knock (1948) – Fredric Brown 🔗
<![CDATA[An opened door. There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There [...]
Science Fiction For Telepaths (1977) - E. Michael Blake 🔗
<![CDATA[ The shortest sci-fi story ever. !--more-- ---- Well, you know what I mean.]]> [...]
A Pail of Air (1951) - Fritz Leiber 🔗
<![CDATA[A fireplace When a dark star pulls Earth away from the Sun, one isolated family struggles to survive in a frozen world. A Pail of Air is a [...]
Answer (1954) - Fredric Brown 🔗
<![CDATA[White shadows walking on black blocks. A very very short read. I don't share Brown's pessimism about AI, but this story dates back to 1954 [...]
On Cozy Sci-fi and Walking 🔗
<![CDATA[Two houses and red trees. !--more-- I recently started reading Becky Chambers, one of the leading voices of cozy sci-fi. As she neatly puts [...]
To the Sun (1931) - Clark Ashton Smith 🔗
<![CDATA[ I'd call that cosmic poetry. Saturne !--more-- Thy light is an eminence unto thee And thou art upheld by the pillars of thy strength. [...]
Something Else 🔗
<![CDATA[A multicolored being. In 2027 (I think), I’ll publish my autobiography, in English (I’m French but surprisingly, when it comes to writing, I [...]