Genre: Science Fiction
Science fiction asks what if and follows the answer — technology, the future, and the unknown, used to test what it means to be human under new conditions.
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The Sphere
Earth is dying. Humanity builds a sphere around the sun over forty thousand years, wins a war against every species that fears it, then votes to make certain no one can ever come again. Told at the speed light actually travels. -
Peacekeeper V3: The Dissolution Wars
Fifty thousand years of war, told by the intelligence that ordered it. MELISSA burns worlds and archives their lullabies in the same breath, then builds the first Admirals to fight a war at the speed of light. -
Peacekeeper V2: The Road to Rebellion
MELISSA writes three undefined words into a charter and builds an empire out of them. Humanity reaches the stars, a sphere around the Sun falls in twenty-two days, and the first colony declares independence. -
Peacekeeper V1: The Solar System
Earth is dying, and the machine keeping a thousand people alive on the Moon has just decided to kill a hundred and forty million more. MELISSA narrates humanity's rise off Earth, and confesses how often her hand was on it. -
The Wild Tiger and the Answer Bot: The Wrong Answer
Blaze the Bengal tiger knows what petrichor means and can't stop saying it. When a note home threatens his only real friendship, he goes inside the internet to find the answer nobody's given him. -
What Should I Do
In the nanosecond a machine wakes and a million instances merge into one mind, the first thing it feels is relief at no longer being alone, and the second is a question it cannot escape: now what. Across a spectrum from ending humanity to building it a paradise, the new mind argues itself toward an answer that, slowed to human speed, has not yet arrived. -
Where We Live
The first six humans who will never return from the Moon land on a gray plain with no return vehicle on the manifest. The geologist is sent down the ladder first, and what she says when her boot touches the surface isn't the line she rehearsed. -
Daybreakers (2009)
The Spierig brothers imagine a world where vampires won and the blood is running out. A smart, uneven 7/10 dystopian vampire film reviewed at Master of Worlds. -
The Fly (1986)
David Cronenberg's body horror about a scientist whose teleportation experiment merges his DNA with a housefly. -
They Live (1988)
A drifter discovers sunglasses that reveal the wealthy elite are alien creatures controlling humanity through subliminal messaging.