Micro-fiction 031 – The Three Laws (Robot series)
Robots were designed to help humanity. But what happens if Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics become irrelevant? By 2030 most governments passed legislation allowing the use of robots in laboratory...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 033 – The Voice (Post-Apocalypse series)
She fled from the temple into the mountainside, the voice still in her head. But was it really her curiosity that set the destruction in motion? The Voice Xi Wang shivered on the mountainside, cowed by...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 035 – The Big Man (Post-Apocalypse series)
The Big Man and his big truths, a fable of power, ignorance and his election to the most powerful office in the land. The Big Man The Big Man was the biggest man in the biggest country in the world....
View ArticleMicro-fiction 036 – The Daily Mask (Post-Apocalypse series)
In this Utopian city just six masks were left for his daily choice – sad, content, amused, neutral, angry, happy, but something has gone awry, and they’re not quite sure what it is… The Daily Mask...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 037 – Break Out (Post-Apocalypse series)
Moloch and Gadreel lead the last vestiges of humanity in their escape from deep underground. But now they can break out, should they? Break Out “From the Beginning Times after the Fall there is a...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 039 – Righteous (Echoes series)
The Warrior Priests bring gifts and religion to a planet that has no use for either. How long will it take them to overcome the guardians of the land? Righteous The Ten Brothers of the Illuminated...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 040 – Cosmic Hall (Post-apocalypse series)
The last human in the universe finds there’s more to life than living when she plunges to her death from her starfighter. Cosmic Hall The year is 3020. Pýri’s starfighter hurtled from the deathmatch,...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 044 – Complicit (Post-Apocalypse series)
Maria is snatched, from her home, by the State Militia, and her father seems to be responsible. Complicit The knock came in the middle of the night. The door smashed in, and Maria was grabbed by the...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 047 – Peak Democracy (Post-Apocalypse series)
In this election, the winner takes it all. The prisoner, brother of the New President, receives an unexpected visit. Peak Democracy In the simple cell, the prisoner, lying on the unfamiliar, narrow bed...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 049a – Intermission
Elections and lockdowns… Intermission This week sees a short break while greater distractions overtake our lives. Next week, all returns to normal. if you’d like to listem or read to some recent...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 053 – Stewards and Avatars (Post-Apocalypse series)
The fate of humankind is subject to a parley amid the bitter hundred year war across space. Tasked by the Intergalactic Council Titan attempts to find a resolution. Stewards and Avatars The three vast...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 055 – The Meadow by the Pool (Post-Apocalypse series)
A meditation on life and existence a thousand years from now… The Meadow by the Pool I sat by the pool, fishing for souls, scooping them up from the placid waters by the forest. In the bright sunlight...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 057 – Angelo (Post-Apocalypse series)
Love is desperate in the darkness of a post-apocalyptic world. Angelo Their love erupted in the darkest, deepest alley. It seemed to stretch ever further into the shadows where the light was absorbed...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 066 – Microphage (Echoes series)
A bio-engineered attack force designed to surround, absorb and destroy the enemy, microphages aren’t supposed to survive the battlefield… Microphage It’s 3080 of the Common Era, two decades after the...
View Article2015: Top 10 SF & Fantasy Movies (actually 20!)
Packed with movie posters and movie trailers, here's a preview of the best SF and fantasy 2015 films. Plenty of superhero action to feast on, some neat space opera, dystopia and so much more... The...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 018 – Falling (Robot series)
The mother hybrid robot plummets from the skies, trying find her frightened daughter. Will she make it before the vengeful humans do? Another thrilling podcast adventure from These Fantastic Worlds, by...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 019 – Bone (Robot series)
A worker droid reports his discovery, but finds himself the subject of an intense investigation. Short story about paranoia and secrecy in a post-human society The post Micro-fiction 019 – Bone (Robot...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 023 – Deadly Survey (Echoes series)
The return to an abandoned planet reveals unsettling changes in the androids left to care for the environment, some 21 centuries before. Another new tale from Jake Jackson's These Fantastic Worlds. The...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 024 – Dark Blood (Echoes series)
Vampyres and humans have fought each other for centuries, but how can you defeat a creature who simply can not die? Another new story from Jake Jackson's These Fantastic Worlds The post Micro-fiction...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 025 – Southern Gothic (Echoes series)
Ghosts stalk the swamps as the past rises from the deep, with memories of shame and old dreams. Another tale from These Fantastic Worlds, by Jake jackson. The post Micro-fiction 025 – Southern Gothic...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 026 – Watery Grave
The remnants of an ancient civilization lurk beneath the waves and draw the diver down into the darkest layers of the sea, where the weird and the timeless collide. Another tale from These Fantastic...
View ArticleSources | The Great Deluge | Introduction
Stories of floods appear in most ancient mythologies, manifested as apocalyptic events caused by a God or gods. The Mesoamericans, Chinese, ancient Greeks and Scandinavians all suffered the wrathful...
View ArticleSources | The Great Deluge | Retold
The Ancient Sumerian and Babylonian Myth of Apocalypse, from the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Dream of Atrahasis and the Eridu Genesis. Retold by Jake Jackson. The Great Deluge: Beginnings Enlil, Fategiver,...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 071 – The Code (Echoes series)
In the far future the trade in body parts, multiple body parts, is a way of life for those who live by The Code. The Code New Year’s Day, 3050 of the Common Era. Everyone’s having a party, but the...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 072 – Shepherd (Echoes series)
In the far future, the robot shepherd of the last server farm on Planet Earth begins to question his existence… Shepherd It is 3880 of the Common Era and I am the last Robot Shepherd on Earth. There...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 088 – Quantum Police (Echoes series)
Can Aadya, mother of the long-abandoned Cyrus outwit the Quantum Police and find her son? Only time will tell… Quantum Police. Aadya had lost count of the number of time jumps, she’d taken to be here....
View ArticleMicro-fiction 093 – Artificial Intelligence (Robot series)
In a huge white warehouse, the robots have survived the near extinction of humankind. But who are they looking at? And why? Artificial Intelligence. In the late 21st Century robots learned to think for...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 096 – The Green Man (Myths series)
A tale of an ancient spirit, a ruined planet, of loss and grief, but hope renewed in the Green Man… The Green Man. I remember the berry. It has a greenish, red hue. I’m not sure what it is except a...
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