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- "Pandora's Box"
- Robert H. Beer
- Issue #34 April 24 1998
- Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1998
- This story touches upon something which is not entirely science fiction; arcologies. Arcologies are giant buildings; self-contained, selfsufficienct cities. Plans for such things have been in existence for decades. This is the story about a time when arcologies are just going into operation and about one man who thinks that being shut inside them is wrong.
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- "Paradise Island: Annotated Version"
- Michael Mirolla
- Issue #64 November 20 1998
- Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1998
- A story about Captain Cook, world famous explorer, and a certain little island that he once discovered. A very interesting tale with an unusual twist in the plot.
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- "Pare It Down"
- Trevor Van Mierlo
- Issue #5 October 5, 1997
- A story involving aliens invading the Earth with an eye to taking over. They decide to do it in a unique fashion. They infiltrate our schools at all levels and begin educating people to be dumber and more compliant. Deprive people of their ability to communicate effectively and they become easily controlled.
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- "Pariah"
- Robert Beer
- Issue #150 July 14 2000
- Fitzhenry was a genetic engineer who developed a technique for altering humans. He was condemned and sentenced to death, except that he managed to escape into space on a ship. The ship returns many three hundred years later, with Fitzhenry still alive. He has come back to hand himself over to serve his sentence. It becomes the job of a security officer to decide how to handle the case. He needs to balance the requirements of justice with the history of the fact that Fitzhenry became viewed as the saviour of the human race. He also needs to convince Fitzhenry that he has a reason to live.
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- "The Past Future"
- Vicki K. Arseneault
- Issue #6 October 10, 2000
- A sheriff is investigating a murder. In the one vehicle he finds an unpublished manuscript. He begins to read the novel and realises that it describes the events around the murder. Later in the book, he reads about himself reading the book and about how a shot suddenly breaks his office window, killing him. Just as he hears the crack.
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- "Penance"
- Eric Brown
- Issue #12 November 21 1997
- Carla is a special young woman with immense psychic powers. Her powers, rampant and uncontrolled, trap her community inside of a bubble of isolated time and space. Anyone who tries to leave can, but they arrive outside totally mad. Doctor Brown decides to try one final, desperate tactic, and dooms his town to an even greater horror.
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- "The Pool"
- Chris Lindsay
- Issue #130 February 25 2000
- A powerfully emotional tale about a warrior who gave everything he could give, except his life, to save his people from a terribly evil creature. Now, an empty shell of who he used to be, he sits beside a pool near his home, trying to recapture who he once was. The pool is magic, giving him reflections of memories he no longer feels or experiences.
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- "The Professor's Weekend"
- Barb Soutar
- Issue #31 April 3 1998
- A professor is having some problems with his wife. She is pregnant and becoming deeply involved in a New Age movement. They claim that the Age of Aquarius is coming and that it will herald the sudden evolution of "supermen". Then strange things start happening and the professor is no longer certain that the New Agers are whackos.
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- "The Promise"
- Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen
- Issue #55 September 18 1998
- An interesting story about several artificial intelligences who serve as computer game characters. One of them becomes dissatisfied with being the loser all of the time and becomes determined to change the script and win.
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- "Puncture Repair"
- David Stephenson
- Issue #61 October 30 1998
- A young college student falls in love with a young woman who's father is a corporate big-wig. A very opinionated big-wig. The young man is finding it very difficult to cement his relation with the young woman due to the opposition of the father. Until he stumbles upon something in the lab which could be very profitable to the father.
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