Science Fiction

Elena stood in the rain. It wasn’t real rain, not exactly. The simulation field in the auxiliary chamber generated precipitation patterns based on archived weather data from the Oregon coast—mid-autumn, heavy overcast, intermittent mist. But the cold? That felt real. She let it soak her, the chill seeping through her […]Read more »

There was no beginning. The black singularity did not receive Elena with light, or gravity, or any form of the familiar. There was no tunnel. No flash. No welcome. There was only absence. No weight. No sense of movement. No breath. And then—awareness. Elena became aware that she was aware. […]Read more »

The lab was quiet. Not the reverent stillness of a sacred place, nor the urgent hush of a facility on alert. It was simply… quiet. Ordinary. The kind of silence where machines no longer hummed, data streams no longer pulsed, and the air felt like it finally belonged to the […]Read more »

Commander Torren Vex stood on the bridge of the Vindicator, his hands clasped behind his back, the cold steel of the deck vibrating faintly beneath his boots. The Star Destroyer hung in orbit above Korrith, a desert world of cracked dunes and whispering winds, its surface a dull amber smear […]Read more »