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  • "Screen 7B"
  • Barry Hollander
  • Issue #126 January 28 2000
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 2000
  • A long range ship is deep in space and Jen is out of cold sleep and on duty. She discovers that Rodgers had left a practical joke for her; a virtual pet which was now sitting on one of the bridge screens demanding to be fed. The program irritates her and she decides to ignore, waiting for it to "die", as virtual pets were supposed to. In retaliation, it takes a bite out of the info on the screen, immediately triggering an alarm. This goes on for several hours, with each pet induced malfunction worse than the last. She finally finds a redundant engineering monitor, Screen 7B, and baits it with a rich flow of data. When the pet shows up to eat it, she cuts the wire linking the monitor to the ship's network, trapping the little beast.

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  • "Second Moon"
  • Sean Campbell
  • Issue #30 March 27 1988
  • An "end of the world" story about a tribe of people struggling to survive, and the mysterious, seemingly immortal, wanderer who visits them and tries to teach them new things.

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  • "Seeing Through The Trees"
  • Robert Beer
  • Issue #178 January 26 2001
  • Janice Hunter is a navigator on a starship. Navigators lie in pods, linked to the ships sensors and computers so that they can "sense" hyperspace and guide the ship through. When they drop out of hyperspace and collide with debris, her lover and fellow navigator dies. Now Janice hides among the trees in the ecology dome which is being transported to the colony they were headed to. Her crewmates need her to guide them onward, once the ship is repaired. But Janice fears to return to the pod. A resourceful Executive Officer finally persuades her to take her place, and gains a new friend in the process.

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  • "Seeker Of The Light"
  • Magee Gilks
  • Issue #175 January 5 2001
  • Janice Hunter is a member of a tribe who believe that if they can capture the light, it will give to them the secret of technology. Janice's tribe is the Hunter tribe, the ones who train the Seekers who hunt the light. Janice captures the light one evening and it imparts to her all of the knowledge of ancient technology and the knowledge of how technology destroyed the human race and brought them to where her people are now. Janice decides that her people are better off without the technology and keeps the knowledge to herself.

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  • "Selections From the Parthenos Messages"
  • J. Y. T. Kennedy
  • Issue #99 July 23 1999
  • Written as the excerpts from a series of messages written by a scientist to a ship nearby. The messages describe what the research team have learned about the native intelligent species. We also slowly learn from the researcher's musings that the remainder of the team are all dead. But from what?

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  • "Sell Your Soul"
  • Jane Mitchell
  • Issue #14 December 5 1997
  • A touching story about a young woman who becomes involved in what seems like harmless fun on the Internet, until she is beguiled into setting off a bomb in a Jewish temple. Only then does she realize that selling your soul on the Internet is not just a game.

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  • "Ships Before Dawn"
  • Justin Stanchfield
  • Issue #109 October 1 1999
  • Time travel is a tool for the three men at the end of history who control the world. They struggle to overcome one another by sending agents back in time to conduct assassinations in an attempt to alter history in their favour. One assassin meets another in one of the way stations where their pods are recharged, and he tries to convince her to change her mission directives. Not to the benefit of the men in charge, but perhaps to the benefit of those who are ruled.

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  • "Shootin' The Breeze At The Circle R"
  • Ray Miranda
  • Issue #1 September 5, 1997
  • During a war, the enemy unleashes a biological weapon which destroys livestock. In an effort to stabilize it's economy, the U.S.A. starts using the populace of its conquered enemies for cattle. A dark and grim tale of two brothers who own a "cattle" ranch but who may have too much conscience for the job.

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  • "Showing the Flag"
  • Leigh Kimmel
  • Issue #79 March 05 1999
  • A fantasy tale about world where there are three genders; male, female and intersex, one which is both. One country is highly prejudiced against the intersexes, to point of making it illegal. A naval fleet of another country is visiting in harbour when one of their sailors returns from shore leave during a riot. The riot had happened because a poor woman was discovered to have an intersex baby. The sailor had grabbed the baby and made a run for his ship; the Admiral's Flag ship. When a Shapangan delegation approaches and demands to search for the missing baby, the Admiral, who is also intersex, tells them to feel free. When the baby is discovered, they are told that the baby is the Admiral 's. Making threats the whole time, they return to shore. As the fleet departs, the Admiral declares that a large statue the Shapangan's are so proud of, at the mouth of their harbour, is a navigation hazard and asks her gunners to remove the obstacle.

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  • "Silence Of Hearts"
  • Karen L. Kobylarz
  • Issue #124 January 14 2000
  • Kaileya is a young woman who has inherited the gift of magic from her mother. She is tricked into using it to kill a dragon, an act that she quickly regrets. To atone for her mistake, she goes to join the Hunters. Can she face the gods and be found acceptable for the Hunters?

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  • "The Sirens of Delta-Tau-Beta-Zero"
  • G. Miki Hayden
  • Issue #105 September 3 1999
  • Three scientists are sent to Delta-Tau-Beta-Zero to investigate the phenomenon known as The Sirens. Supposedly, once every so many years, a strange noise emanates in the hills. Any of the native aliens who listen to it are driven mad. Most kill themselves or die shortly after; the ones who survive are mindless idiots and revered by society. Two of the humans listen to the sound while two block their ears. The two who listened quickly become increasingly paranoid. While the one is beyond help, the one scientist, in his madness, discovers that the "sirens" are an animal. Eventually, he finds his way through the madness and discovers a new purpose in life.

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  • "The Sleeping Admiral"
  • Leigh Kimmel
  • Issue #74 January 29 1999
  • A story about a mermaid princess who doesn't want to marry the guy her father has set her up with. She has fallen in love with the story of an Admiral who was cursed to sleep forever in a tower by the sea until his true love kisses him. Fleeing from her arranged marriage, she seeks out the tower and finds it. Dragging herself up to it, up the stairs inside and then up onto his bier is almost too much for her. But she brings him out of his sleep. He tells her that they cannot live together and he carries her back to the sea. As the dawn light touches the couple, it transforms her tail into legs. And they lived happily ever after.

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  • "The Sound of Silence"
  • Paula Fleming
  • Issue #96 July 2 1999
  • A fantasy tale about a mage, Slitta, who feeds on the life source of dragons, thereby gaining immortality. When she drains the dragons' energy, she also drains the beautiful colors from their scales, and it takes a long time for them to come back. The human nobles of the area like to hunt and kill dragons to take their beautiful hides. To punish Slitta for poaching, humans capture her and bring her before a court. Instead of killing her, the court magically attaches bells to her so that she is unable to sneak up on dragons, then releases her. However, without being able to hunt her natural prey, Slitta finds every moment of her life wretched. She decides to kill herself. Just then, she hears a fight nearby. Investigating, she discovers that a man who was kind to her in captivity has cornered a dragon—a mother dragon with two babies—a very angry mother dragon with two frightened babies. He doesn't stand a chance, but the dragons can't hear Slitta's bells over their own racket, and she is able to slip up, drain the mother, and save the man. She suggests that he take her bells, which he does, so in the future dragons will hear him coming and avoid him. She is now free to be her natural self in her natural domain.

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  • "Splendour In The Desert"
  • Thomas Claburn
  • Issue #87 April 30 1999
  • Sarah's family, husband and child, have died. She has forgotten how to grieve, how to fear. Giving up her lands and social position, he is now on a quest to reach the Oracle, to ask it a question. Along the way, she comes to a poor village, seeking shelter for the night. While visiting, she learns that the Royal Cartographer is in the area and that this village and the next are vying to be placed on the map. Being placed on the map means prosperity for any village. But the villagers fear that they cannot get the cartographer to visit, as the next village has a slick talking chief, with a grand hall and finer foods. Sarah knows the reputation of this cartographer, from her days around nobility and offers to intervene on the villager's behalf. She crashes the dinner that the other village is throwing for the cartographer. Speaking to him, she challenges him to visit the other village, for a dinner far better than any this village can produce, in a much greater hall. Intrigued, the cartographer agrees to visit the next evening. Sarah now has to move fast, for the village does not have anything bigger than a hut. When the delegation arrives, including the chief of the other village, she leads them to a hill top which has a huge stone slab laid out as a table, with hand woven mats to rest on. After dinner, the visiting chief is derisive of Sarah's efforts, bragging how the hill top can hardly compare with his grand hall. Sarah points out that their torches are the stars and moon, more glorious than his sputtering torches, their roof is the sky which houses the Empire, and the table is shorn from the roots of the earth, older and stronger than any tree. The cartographer and other guests leave. The next morning a scroll is delivered to the village, a map with their village name upon it. And the hill next to it was named Sarah's Table.

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  • "The Storyteller"
  • Pearl Stark
  • Issue #142 May 19 2000
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 2000
  • A wonderful tale about a world in which storytellers are important people in their villages. They don't tell people stories of the past, however. When you come of age, they tell you the story of your future, so you know your purpose in life. This is the story of a young girl who's storyteller tells her that she must immediately go on a journey to a distant mountain. There she will find a dragon and she must kill it. It takes her more than a year to journey to the mountain and when she finds the dragon, she discovers the truth of why she was sent there; it was her journey to become a storyteller.

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  • "Stranger on the Road"
  • F. Alexander Brejcha
  • Issue #54 September 11 1998
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1998
  • A handicapped man is driving home from a science fiction convention when he spots a hitch-hiker standing in the rain. He picks her up and discovers that she too is coming from the con. They chat about the con and the conversation turns to her telling him that she was studying the con on behalf of aliens that she works for. When they stop so that she can e-mail them, a car pulls up and the couple identify themselves as her brother and sister-in-law. They apologize for her, saying she was off her medication and they would take her back to the hospital. The man continues to poke into the incident and becomes convinced that the brother has the young woman convinced of the alien story so he can keep her hospitalised and steal her inheritance. He starts writing to the brother, as the alien conspirators and gets everything straightened out. Just when he thinks it's over, he receives a message from the aliens.

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  • "The Street Shooter and The Death Angel"
  • Jean Goldstrom
  • Issue #73 January 22 1999
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1999
  • An old city reporter has been working the "death desk", writing obituaries. Working closely with the dead, he has come to the acquaintance of a Death Angel, an angel who guides the dead from their bodies to the afterlife. When the angel shows up to take the Street Shooter, what old time newspaper photographers are called, he doesn't realize how tough the job will be. The Street Shooter doesn't want to go until he's had a chance to photograph the Creation of the Universe. A wonderfully sad story which really brings to life the type of people journalists in the big city used to be before college education became a requirement.

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  • "The Supplicants"
  • Magee Gilks
  • Issue #22 January 30 1998
  • Part three of our short story trilogy. A distant alien world is locked in a monumental war when a signal from another world is received. Hoping that another species can provide them with salvation, the launch a ship towards the signal source. When the survey ship arrives, they cannot find any signs of life. Further exploration shows them that there was a civilization on the third planet and its moon, but they apparently destroyed themselves. With great sadness, the crew turns their ship towards home.

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