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The American Book of the Dead Part II by Henry Baum

Part II of The American Book of the Dead – a novel about evolution and the apocalypse, which won Best Fiction at the DIY Book Festival and the Gold IPPY Award for Visionary Fiction. In Part II, the writer of the first novel is commissioned to write another book that may help avert catastrophe, and pave the way for . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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Hyperlink Your Heart by randomhuman

Until there's nothing left

Out of loneliness, or boredom, maybe, you assign a URL to your heart and share it on the forums and social networks you frequent.  The hits trickle in at first, the unusually curious trampling through, poking and prodding, unsure of what they’re seeing.  But then the links spread.  Everybody wants to see your heart, to have a role in pulling . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated weekly.
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Unknown Transmission by Steve Scearce

A communications specialist in the year 2185 is marooned in deep space by his ship’s assistant (a transgenic fish/humanoid).  Stranded just outside the horizon of a supermassive black hole, he begins to send messages back to record his actions and observations.  A radio astronomer in present-day Antarctica is listening.  Something terrible is about to happen. . . .

A blogfic, with no recent updates.
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The Daedalus Transfer by Huw Langridge

A signal from a distant star triggers a dangerous mission to investigate

In the near future a message is received from Proxima Centauri 4.3 light years away.  A massive operation is put into action to build a ship to send a crew of six to investigate the signal.  They arrive after 150 years only to discover that the signal came from a very obscure and unexpected source. . . .

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HYPERLINK YOUR HEART

scifi shorts on humanity & virtual reality

Member: capriox
March 14, 2010

I liked the writing so far in this collection of scifi vignettes & short stories.  "The Milgram Experiment" in particular was a heart-wrenching little bit of flash fiction that I loved – lots of emotional punch in very few words.  Excellent.  The general setting for the stories seems to be a future where AIs are powerful enough to mimic human [more . . .]

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