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- "The Best Looking Prison On The Block"
- Frank Fedishaw
- Issue #7 October 17, 1997
- Every universe has an evil dictator trying to rule everything, and ours is no different. Except, our evil dictator was defeated and imprisoned. His prison is in a sphere of a statue sitting in a beautiful little garden in a quiet neighbourhood in a small town in the United States. Fertilizer is provided by the attempts to rescue him.
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- "The Binky At The End Of The World"
- Jay Arr Henderson
- Issue #117 November 26 1999
- Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1999
- On a message board, participants were making jokes about something called binkies. I finally asked what a binky was and no one would tell me. Then one day, this story showed up in my in-box and I learned what binkies are. It is a delightful tale about the end of the world as we know it and the efforts of a little guy to put people back on track.
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- "Black Fire"
- Shikhar Dixit
- Issue #52 August 28 1998
- An interesting tale about a "gopher routine", a program designed to shuttle data back and forth on the Internet, and its quest for independence.
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- "Black Hole of Cyberia"
- Atk. Butterfly
- Issue #97 July 9 1999
- Something is wrong with the network; data keeps getting lost and random garbage keeps showing up. Or is it random? When the techs delve into the problem, they discover that the data composes messages coming from another universe, and it looks like they think that the characters in computer games are people being annihilated by the humans and they are planning to send a rescue mission.
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- "Blind Date"
- Donald Kyle
- Issue #8 October 24, 1997
- Deep in space, a bored communications tech on a space station begins to realise that each time a certain alien ship passes through, he seems to be talking to the same comm tech. He begins to make conversation with the comm tech, each time the ship comes and goes. Eventually, he decides that the comm tech is a she and that he would really like to meet her; so he asks. Then the diplomatic flurry explodes. They do meet and it acts as a small step toward bringing their two species closer together.
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- "Born Lucky"
- Shirley Chan
- Issue #46 July 17 1998
- A story about a family which has a dominant recessive gene which gives them luck. One of their younger members lies in a hospital, the victim of a tragic automobile accident. Charlie has never been lucky because his mother married outside of the family. But his father is convinced that Charlie did inherit some of his mother's luck, otherwise he wouldn't be alive.
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- "Burning From The Inside"
- Thomas Claburn
- Issue #137 April 14 2000
- Another story about Sarah (#87 "Splendour in the Desert", #108 "Watchman of the Sands"). This time she encounters a strange walled city where everyone goes about robed and masked. She convinces them to let her do some guard duty in exchange for some food and shelter. As things progress, she uncovers the secret of the city, that the accuse their own of being evil, beat them to death and cremate them. Sarah herself almost becomes a victim before escaping.
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