Friday, March 23, 2012

Alien Interlude 3

Peg Talking by John Cooper
Alien Interlude 3 - The Clargons







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Illustration by John Cooper

END OF ACT ONE 

Friday, March 16, 2012

Chapter 3 Part 3

Ice Cosmos - Russell Bloor
The huge mothership blinked into existance at the hyperspace emergence point three parsecs out from the local star system...


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Friday, March 9, 2012

Chapter 3 Part 2

Which Way Out - Russell Bloor
Locked in a virtual environment, I realised that my only hope was to build a surge of orgone energy which would flash-erase the servers' security drives...



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Friday, March 2, 2012

Chapter 3 Part 1

Beach Voices
I came to on what appeared to be an endless beach. Stones and shingle streched from horizon to horizon, a vermilion sea smashing noisily against the shore...



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Friday, February 24, 2012

Alien Interlude 2

Zumanid by John Cooper
The Zumanids communicate by a combination of biofluorescence and telepathy.


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Illustration by John Cooper

Friday, February 17, 2012

Chapter 2 Part 3

I Think They Like You - Russell Bloor
I bit deeply into the greasy Zhang crab burger. Not what I would have chosen as my first meal in seventeen days, but it tasted like a fishy, plastic, stringy taste of heaven. Maybe heaven wouldn't be such a good place...


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Friday, February 10, 2012

Chapter 2 Part 2

Zone by Russell Bloor

It was about two hours after she had docked with the Dataface that she first noticed something was different...




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Friday, February 3, 2012

Chapter 2 Part 1

Sixth Iteration by David Longey

Long ago she'd lost count of her incarnations.Every now and then she'd go through a sparse memory flush in order to simplify her world view. Living into your second millenium took a little nerve, and a little judicious editing...





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Friday, January 27, 2012

Alien Interlude 1

Denubians by John Cooper
Alien Interlude 1 - The Denubians

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Chapter 1 Part 3

Other Places by Russell Bloor
At least some of the pain in my head had faded by the time I landed the starfighter on the jungle world...

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Chapter 1 Part 2

Helmsman by David Longey

From the edge of the system it looked like an average moon, a small grey sphere of lifeless rock. It was only under higher magnification, or under different spectra that it became clear this was not a natural object...




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Thanks to Rocket Recordings for the following article on Space Opera:
Rocket Recordings Blog - Space Opera Article

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Chapter 1 Part 1

Trans Sister by David Longey

My eyes open, and again focus on the face of the nurse before me. Beautiful and flawless, but betrayed as human-adjusted by the faint green glow of her skin, and the multi-facets of her purple eyes...






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