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The Intake Form
The entity had been waiting in Processing Room 7 for three hours when Clerk Venn finally looked up from his terminal and said, 'I'm going to need you to fill out Form 27-B.'
Original science fiction grounded in the history of ideas, discovery, and speculation about what might yet be.
The entity had been waiting in Processing Room 7 for three hours when Clerk Venn finally looked up from his terminal and said, 'I'm going to need you to fill out Form 27-B.'
Dr. Sarah Chen had been listening to the signal from Kepler-442 for eight months when she realized she didn't want to decode it.
Commander Elena Vasquez is the last person alive who remembers Earth—and the only one who knows their generation ship is heading toward the wrong planet. But how do you convince a crew that thinks Earth is mythology?
Dr. Sarah Chen designed the triage protocols that decide who gets life-saving medicine during a pandemic. But when her eight-year-old daughter is dying, even the expert who created the system discovers that some choices destroy the chooser.
Dr. Sarah Chen discovers that her revolutionary neural cartography technology has been used for systematic memory editing, forcing her to choose between exposing the program and destroying thousands of lives built on false memories.
Dr. Marcus Webb counsels families choosing consciousness preservation technology, discovering that immortality systematically destroys the emotional architecture that defines humanity.
First contact translator Elena Vasquez discovers that alien consciousness merger technology offers perfect understanding at the cost of individual human identity.
In 2157, consciousness archaeologist Dr. Elena Vasquez discovers technology that allows her to inhabit the minds of historical figures. When she downloads the consciousness of Marcus Aurelius during his final plague-ridden days, she triggers an ancient Roman transformation curse that begins reshaping her body—and her reality.
In 1610, young Marco learns that Galileo's telescope reveals more than Jupiter's moons. As the Inquisition closes in, he must choose between cosmic truth and earthly survival.
In the dying light of three alien suns, a Germanic space-warrior faces the choice between honor and survival when kindness to a seemingly worthless creature reveals the key to preventing an inevitable cosmic war.
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