Showing results for title "Nothing" in Science Fiction

It’s a dangerous post-Reparations world, but Nuria Sellers is no stranger to war and sacrifice. After losing her left arm battling White extremists, the brave amputee instantly became a foundational Black American hero. Yet Nuria’s professional success has come at a tremendous personal price. Her personal life is in utter turmoil, but ensuring the safety of her California-based Reparations Colony is what defines her existence. A lethal attack from shadowy anti-Black forces challenges Nuria to find her inner strength and somehow protect her colony’s political gains.

In this science fiction short story by the author of Dune, self-actualization meets a future society where those with "special talents" rule over those without. Can true love survive?

Root is...different. Though raised in a fearful society that reveres conformity, she's irreverent, outspoken, and deeply curious. Her congenital blindness sets her even further apart. Centuries after the Reckoning, a biotech disaster, savage chimeras still threaten human survival. When Root hears a voice that no one else can hear, she flees into the wilderness. Outcast and hunted, she must confront a dire threat to her people - and unravel the mystery of who she really is.

A man, a space bubble, and space. Two men had already gone insane claiming "it" was trying to get in and kill them. Green, the third man to enter the bubble, would not be affected. Or would he?

Zuri has the perfect life—a beautiful home on the Hillstead, a loving family, and a powerful job keeping the LA Basin’s grid humming. If only she didn’t see the ghost of her dead twin in the mirror. Her grief-counselor husband understands too much, Aunties Cora and Vivian smother her to excess, and her mother can’t look at her daughter without seeing the half that’s missing. Zuri can’t begin to face her sister’s little daughter—to Ruby, Zuri is the ghost. Which is why she’s running away to work, again, on the anniversary of her sister’s death.

When former career criminal Westlake finds himself semi-zombified and shuffling towards Atlantic City, he freaks out. He's supposed to be dead, after all. Kidnapped, he becomes part of a savage gladiator-styled show for the amusement of a heartless overlord. Lucky for him, ex-cop Estela Ramirez and her crew of mishap heroes are already on their way to save him and stop the horrors being inflicted on the humans in good ol' AC . . . if they can figure out a way to fly a plane there, that is.

Colonel David Gath is an aging astronaut on his last expedition to the International Space Station. He was no one’s first choice; he was a replacement of a replacement. After learning the United States has been attacked with a weaponized disease, Gath convinces his crew to help him bring a vaccine from the Station to Earth. As they cross a devastated land, facing violent infected, mercenaries, and a traitor determined to see them fail, Gath is haunted by the fear he may have led his crew to their deaths based on a lie.

The only choice the denizens of a war-torn Los Angeles have left is to plunge into the deep dark of the metro tunnels and make a new life in the ruins of the subway rails below - with elbow grease, neon, and blood. In the crumbling catacombs beneath Hollywood, an ex-private eye named Jim "Jimbo" Maynard scours the dead, dark underworld for payoff on a gamble gone wrong, but stumbles instead on a subterranean metropolis divided by vice, vendettas, mysteries, and murder plots.

Apropos is the unlikely noble whose life began in the lowest of ways: as the result of a gang assault by a group of drunken knights on a helpless tavern wench. Last time out, Apropos attempted to seize control of his own fate, and ended up with, appropriately, nothing. Time has passed since he fled the kingdom of Runcible, and Apropos leads a quiet existence as a tavern owner. All that changes abruptly, however, when the sorceress Sharee re-enters his life with the forces of the warlike Lord Bellicose hard on her heels. They want something they're convinced she has stolen. 

Akemi’s job on the Public Utilities Commission has its own daily disasters—making sure the infrastructure of civilization keeps running is the most thankless job on the planet. When a double event hits—heatwave plus viral breakout—keeping the power on is an all-out battle. It doesn’t help that he’s distracted by his elderly father, who was struck down and neuro-compromised by the same virus that killed his mother the year before.

So you think you know all about superheroes? Those guys in the capes and the lightly starched spandex speedoes? Leaping tall buildings and always getting the girl? You don't know nothing. Join Steve Vernon, Nova Scotia's hardest working horror writer, as he takes you into the world of Captain Nothing. It's a world without hope, a world that is as cold and dark as a landlord's heart, three days after the rent is due. It's a world that could give the Batman a case of the squirming night fears.

Quill Point, Illinois, used to be like any other small town. Most of its citizens have lived there their entire lives. Each of them is a part of a larger community of friends, neighbors, and coworkers. When the sky changed, no one saw it for what it was: the beginning of the end. When the sky changed, no one saw it for what it was: the beginning of the end. Now, as horrors and monsters rise, and the population of Quill Point dwindles, the remaining citizens must try to survive the evil machinations at the heart of this new apocalypse. They are in the middle of something beyond understanding.

For centuries, the Quinn corporation has granted power to those families that pre-existed them on the planet. Now, with a war on and everything at stake, Charles will burn that legacy to the ground in order to purge the planet of those who would stab his family and corporation in the back and reward those who will help them win the war. Meanwhile in the mountains, rival commanders vie for the loyalty of the invader's army as both sides prepare to spill their blood once more across the stones of the embattled world.

What is real when emotions can be controlled, and people’s thoughts can be altered. Holding on to your sanity is the difference between freedom and slavery, not that you would know the difference. Those who are strong of will can alter the reality of weaker minds, changing the perception of reality. The rich can be made to believe they are poor; the old, young; and the innocent, guilty. Some use their ability for personal gain, some to help others, and some for their own twisted amusement. Jonas Sanders, a slacker who has never aspired to anything, must not only discover the depths of his...

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

A podcast between friends, that doesn't bother itself with staying on topic. Join us every other Sunday for shallow dives into whatever floats through our heads. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It is summer, in the probably distant future, and Artie Lindstrom - the wizard behind a remotely-triggered jar lid opener that became the weapon that defeated the Martian invasion, a water desalinization machine that inadvertently produced gin, and a death ray gun that obliterated Venus during the Three-Day War - has sketched out plans for an anti-gravity machine not much bigger than a mini-fridge.

"Прыжок в ничто" - фантастический роман Александра Беляева, жанр научная фантастика, социальная фантастика. Посвящён Константину Эдуардовичу Циолковскому.

Greetings, newest acquisition, you are being S.A.V.E.D. You and your planet will be Sheltered within the federation starship where you'll be equipped with all modern Advancements to quickly become spacefaring members. It is then, up to you to Vindicate your existence on the eternal tigen ailid. After proving your worth, you'll be Embraced into the federation where you will get to Decide what you want.

Amon Heights is a completely ordinary town in New Jersey. Everything is fine. Nothing is wrong.Nothing Is Wrong is a horror anthology podcast taking place in and around the fictional town of Amon Heights, New Jersey. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.