Ted Chiang's short story Division by Zero was first published in Full Spectrum 3 in 1991 and reprinted in Stories of Your Life and Others. Division by Zero tells the story of a couple dealing with their individual worldviews being pulled from under t...

Samantha Murray's short story Of Sight, Of Mind, Of Heart was published by Clarkesworld in November 2016. Of Sight, Of Mind, Of Heart tells the story of a mother coping with her child going to war against alien invaders. I now have a Facebook page:...

T. R. Napper's short story An Advanced Guide to Successful Price-Fixing in Extraterrestrial Betting Markets was originally published in the January-February 2015 issue of Interzone magazine. I listened to on the StarShipSofa podcast, from November 2016...

Mary Robinette Kowal's short story Evil Robot Monkey was first published in the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Two from 2008, edited by George Mann. Evil Robot Monkey is the story of an uplifted chimp trying to understand the world. Hav...

Robert Coover's short story Invasion of the Martians was first published in the September 2016 issue of the New Yorker magazine. Invasion of the Martians is a comic satire that uses the tropes of science fiction B-movies to comment on American poli...

Mary Anne Mohanraj's short story Communion was first published by Clarkesworld Magazine in 2014. It is the story of a human and alien mourning the loss of someone important to both of them. Have you read this story? What did you think? You can ...

Robert Reed's short story Eight Episodes was first published in the June 2006 issue of Asimov's Magazine. I listened to it on EscapePod 107. Eight Episodes is a story about an alien invasion that occurred during the earliest days of the earth. ...

Megan Arkenberg's short story Like All Beautiful Places was first published in the 2015 anthology The End Has Come, edited by John Joseph Adams. Like All Beautiful Places tells the story of a survivor in post-apocalyptic San Francisco. Have you ...

J. G. Ballard's short story Billenium was first published in Amazing Stories in 1962. I read it in the Oxford Book of SF Stories (1992). Billenium tells the story of two roommates who discover a secret room in their new home. Have you read it? ...

Madeleine Ashby's short story By the Time we get to Arizona was first published in the Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future anthology, edited by Ed Finn.By the Time we get to Arizona tells the story of a couple trying to emigrate from Mex