Artifacts

You know, I kind of like the library. Sure, it's dark, and the butler insists it's haunted. Parts of it move around inexplicably f...

Eet eez a beeg ball of boom. Ya. And I'd made it. Luckily, I'm on the other side of a duralloy pressure containment door. This s...

The daydream was over in less than a second. As the bravado, confidence, and power that it brought faded, I glanced nervously between the po...

I was just sitting at the bus stop. It wasn't that the Wehremacht's third tank column's lead was rounding the corner. The Thir...

Just because you can see something doesn't mean that you can tell how big it is. It took astronomers hundreds of years to develop e...

Three worlds exist simultaneously. In the first, cool, carefully prescribed inputs follow clean, mechanical pathways of polished cams, ...

Alder looked out the window at the softly falling snow, appreciating the monochromatic scintillation as the blanket grew deeper. The newcom...

The search had been quite fruitful; nearly every cubic kilometer of the old Luk'naga golem was accounted for. Varying sizes of chunk dr...

When the first piece of wreckage had been brought in, the scientists had started their work immediately. Visual inspection showed that it...

Reconstruction after the war had been difficult, but it had been approached with a renewed rigor among the lassaiz faire policies following ...

Encyclopaedia Fritz, Edition CLVII (2672 Atomic Era) The Northern War Border dispute between to adjacent star federations in the Norther...

Sure, the Duke of Gramm had been dealing with a number of his own problems. That came with a planet-duchy. It still didn't help with wha...

A waltz was playing somewhere. Well, it certaainly felt like a waltz was playing. After a terse conversation with Lady Elega...

* slam * From the frightening whirl of the ether he impacted the floor, and with a lurch reality settled around him and sealed the gap thr...

As I stepped out of the village, my heart swelled. I turned to look back at the place where I had grown wings, the place where I knew when t...

I had just finished communicating the coordinates of all the navigational beacons in the sector to the new arrival when another call came. T...

The scientist cackled maniacally as the mixture began to bubble. Lowering his goggles and straightening his stain-splattered lab coat, he do...

Sweating inside of his radiation suit, the nuclear workman used tongs to heft the result of an hour's work. The rectangular prism was ju...

On the approach to the system the pilot had been nervous. Only the slightest stresses had been applied to the engine systems over the course...

 "Why, I'm going to do as much as I can until I get kicked out of BYU," she huffed. I looked into her gaze, which she was cast...