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Fish Story, Episode Fourteen, Punctiphobia: An Inordinate Fear of Spots

Andrew Dennis, Dave Freer and Eric Flint — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:09:00 -0000

"You!"

Fish Story, Episode Thirteen, The Plot to End the Universe

Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis, Dave Freer — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:33:00 -0000

“Do I hear a motion to dispense with all old business, and move right to new business?” asked the eurypterid, Gardner Flowers. He was back to his normal role as chaircreature of the A-Team.

Fish Story, Episode Twelve: Make It More Complicated

Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis, Dave Freer — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:19:00 -0000

“Tolerated to be it is not!”

Fish Story, Episode Eleven, The End of Mankind

Dave Freer, Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:27:00 -0000

It was a good pub to be back in, even if I was being talked to.

The Ancient Ones, Episode Five

David Brin — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:21:00 -0000

“Keep moving,” said the guy jabbing a stake into my back.

Fish Story, Episode Ten: The A-Team

Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis, Dave Freer — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:16:00 -0000

“Who’s from the future?” I demanded. “I’m from the present!”

Fish Story, Episode Nine: Love at First Bite

Dave Freer, Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:26:00 -0000

"And the world will descend again into primordial slime!" said our host.

Fish Story, Episode 8: The Yellow Sub . . .

Dave Freer, Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:39:00 -0000

A moment ago escape from the gut-wrenching passage of the churnel had seemed a vast relief.

Countdown to Armageddon, Episode Seven

Edward M. Lerner — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:17:00 -0000

Countdown to Armageddon, Episode Six

Edward M. Lerner — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:15:00 -0000

The fallen covered hills and plain for as far as the eye could see.

Countdown to Armageddon, Episode Five

Edward M. Lerner — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:13:00 -0000

The singsong of the muezzin still echoed in al-Ghafiqi’s ears as he rolled up his prayer rug.

Countdown to Armageddon, Episode Four

Edward M. Lerner — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:12:00 -0000

The straight, one-edged scramasax clanged against Harry’s own sword, once, twice, three times.

Countdown to Armageddon, Episode Three

Edward M. Lerner — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:10:00 -0000

The earth rolled in great waves.

Countdown to Armageddon, Episode Two

Edward M. Lerner — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:07:00 -0000

A Brobdingnagian roar engulfed the thick woods.

Countdown to Armageddon, Episode One

Edward M. Lerner — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:05:00 -0000

The village baked under the late-morning sun.

Fish Story, Episode 7: We’re Going to Need a Bigger Pub

Andrew Dennis, Dave Freer and Eric Flint — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:24:00 -0000

Fish Story, Episode 6

Andrew Dennis, Dave Freer and Eric Flint — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:15:00 -0000

Where we left matters in the last installment was a little ways up Bifrost. I was there; it actually happened.

The Ancient Ones, Episode 4

David Brin — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:06:00 -0000

Again and again, during my years of service, I have reflected upon the high likelihood that I must be insane.

Fish Story, Episode 5

Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis, Dave Freer — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:17:00 -0000

"—and that's when you went to Nineveh." Sheila Rowen took another long pull from her tankard. "It's right there in the Bible, He-Who-Calls-Himself-Jonah.

Fish Story, Episode 4

Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis, Dave Freer — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:55:00 -0000

So back into the churnel we went—which, from this side as well as the one we'd entered in South London, took the form of a broom closet.

Slan Hunter, Part 3

A. E. van Vogt and Kevin J. Anderson — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 06:05:00 -0000

On the sheer edge of the red-stone balcony overlooking the glassed-over canyons of Mars, Jem Lorry stood with his old father. The head of the Tendrilless Authority had a calm smile on his face, as if content just to be next to his ambitious son before Jem's departure to meet with President Kier Gray. He was glad of his son's apparent change of heart. To an outside observer, it might have looked like a tender father-son moment.

Slan Hunter, Part 2

A. E. van Vogt and Kevin J. Anderson — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 06:01:00 -0000

From his headquarters office in the Martian city of Cimmerium, Jem Lorry received the vivid images from his vanguard forces at Earth. This was one of the most satisfying moments in his life.

Slan Hunter, Part 1

A. E. van Vogt and Kevin J. Anderson — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 05:57:00 -0000

The world was already falling apart when her first contractions hit.

"Perfect timing—" Anthea Stewart clenched her teeth to stop a hiss of pain, holding her rounded abdomen.

The Ancient Ones, Episode 3

David Brin — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:38:00 -0000

Picture a lonely human, sleeping fitfully atop a cold marble slab in an alien cemetery, his dreams threaded by a night-long rhapsody of the undead—a crooning zombie serenade.

Fish Story, Episode 3

Dave Freer, Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:46:00 -0000

This episode of the fishy tale borders on the hallucinatory. I'm not too sure if I should be telling you.

Travails With Momma, Episode 3

John Ringo — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:45:00 -0000

One of the many oddities of the Heteran Central School was that there was no lunchroom. Instead, at spaced times, the children were permitted to go to the surface and buy food from vendors in kiosks.

Fish Story, Episode 2

Dave Freer, Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:33:00 -0000

I was always a slow learner, even though on the day this episode of our story begins I had been practicing Darwinian selection on my brain-cells since just before lunch. More precisely, since just before the lunch that would have happened if we'd had lunch at all—"we" in this instance referring to myself and my two drinking friends of the moment, Steven Speairs and MacParrot.

Travails With Momma, Part 2

John Ringo — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:32:00 -0000

"Josh, you have to understand," his dad said, calmly. "The Toolecks are a very efficient race. They discovered advanced biology and medicine comparatively early in their development and lagged behind in…hard sciences like physics and engineering. So they had a population problem well before Terra, developmentally. And the way they solved it was by…"

The Ancient Ones, Episode 2

David Brin — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:31:00 -0000

Consciousness returned in fits and starts, accompanied by a rhythmic, irritating, "plinking" sound—the repetitious dripping of water into some pool. Even before I opened my eyes, mineral aromas and stony echoes told me that I must be underground, lying on some cold, gritty floor.

Fish Story, Episode 1

Andrew Dennis, Dave Freer and Eric Flint — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:51:00 -0000

Episode 1: The Wandle Pike

You may call me Ishmael. Yes, I know it's been done. But since my name will change constantly as the story progresses, it may as well begin in the public domain.

Travails with Momma, Part 1

John Ringo — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:48:00 -0000

"JOSH!"

Josh Parker ignored his mother, leaving his eyes closed as he kept reading.

The Ancient Ones, Episode 1

David Brin — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:02:00 -0000

When you’re in charge of ship filled with impish little Green aliens, the surprises a new world holds are only half the game. The other half are the surprises your crewmates and captain will think up...