Containment Facility One is ancient, beautiful, and broken. Built eons ago in a parallel universe, the massive space station keeps the Destroyer—a genocidal and nearly omnipotent alien being—imprisoned. The Destroyer has already devoured all life in countless dimensions, and if he escapes, our universe is next. Unfortunately, the Containment Facility One crew is trapped too. That’s why they . . .
When Xenobiologist, Dr. Murray, receives yet another phony wedding invitation from her galaxy hopping sister, she does what any good sibling would do. She drops her research and hops the first flight to some obscure planet at the edge of the civilized universe. But Zora’s weddings never manage to go off as planned, and before the cake is served, . . .
The Good Captain is a sci-fi adaptation of Herman Melville’s novella Benito Cereno, conceived for and originally distributed via Twitter. . . .
I started reading The Good Captain today while trying to decide whether or not to list it (it’s a novella—only about 17000 words, and I wasn’t initially sure it fit our site). Well, I ended up reading the whole thing. That’s unusual.
The author describes The Good Captain as a science [more . . .]
"Stuck Station" is what the inhabitants of Containment Facility One have taken to calling their home. It’s called "Stuck Station" because they’re just as trapped there as the actual prisoner is. Stuck Station is a hyper-dimensional prison. The prisoner, known as the Destroyer, is a threat to every reality—it destroys universes. It wants to escape. The people assigned to man [more . . .]