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  • "Tether"
  • David Chato
  • Issue #28 March 13 1988
  • Man has achieved a great dream; a space tether. A giant cable, with a freight elevator inside of it, stretching up into high Earth orbit and passing through an orbital station. It will make lifting goods and supplies to the station so much cheaper. Except, the cable has picked up an alien microorganism capable of adapting to any environment. It eats metal and is feeding on the tether. The only way to destroy the organism is to create a rapid change in environment, too rapid for it to adapt to. As the organism reaches the ground station, a dam is blown apart, crushing the station with billions of tons of water, effectively destroying both the organism and the tether.

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  • "That Something Special"
  • Roderick D. Turner
  • Issue #15 December 15 1997
  • The future is a nasty place to live. The favourite television show features a super-hero cop who hunts down the evil bad guys each week. What the viewers do not realize is that the "bad guys" are desperate people hoping to escape and win a large sum of money to ease their troubles. Reality television taken to a new height.

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  • "They Came From Ooter's Place"
  • Karl El-Koura
  • Issue #29 March 20 1998
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1998
  • A humour story about a young boy who's best friend is Ooter. They discover that Ooter's family has a "television" which is allowing aliens from another dimension to infiltrate Earth, where they assume human disguises and take up important positions.

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  • "Thinning The Herd"
  • Jim Owens
  • Issue #128 February 11 2000
  • A bizarre tale about two people sent out to a public field to get rid of an infestation of pests. The pests are rogue lap tops, personal computers and the big server which threatens to destroy everyone in the field after the agents have shot several pieces of hardware. A weird little parallel universe and a delightful tale.

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  • "The Third Maiden"
  • Paula L. Fleming
  • Issue #174 December 29 2000
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 2000
  • A dragon tries to capture three virgin maidens but is instead enchanted by them. Each wants something from the dragon. He is able to comply with the wishes of the first two, but not the third. The third maiden flings him into the future and binds him to the earth in the form of a roller coaster. When the other finally free the dragon, they are confronted by the third maiden who agains demands her wish of the dragon. This time, the dragon has learned to give her what she wants and the four are joined together for eternity.

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  • "Times Gone Bye"
  • Michael T. Marsh
  • Issue #90 May 21 1999
  • A story about feeling like you were born in the wrong era. A real estate company can offer to sell you a home any place and any time period you desire. A little family decides that their era is too dangerous and difficult to live in, that they would like to live in a simpler time, so they buy a small place in the early years of the United States. After six months, they discover that without all of the conveniences of their time, like medical science, that the simpler time does not equate to a simpler life. So they return to their own era, learning to appreciate what they have.

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  • "Titanic Revisited"
  • Robert Vanderwoude
  • Issue #102 August 13 1999
  • A new company offers an entirely new way of taking a vacation. Their machinery can temporarily plant your consciousness into the mind of people in the past. For the first full scale run with VIP's and the news media, they decide to take a trip to the Titanic and witness its final hours. But when the ship has struck the iceberg and the recall is supposed to occur, they discover that hackers have fouled the system and they just might go down with the ship after all.

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  • "To The Power Of Nine"
  • Justin Stanchfield
  • Issue #164 October 20 2000
  • A rescue time arrives at a research post too late to save the research team. There are suggestions that the system's sun is unstable and threatening the colony, but the evacuation order cannot be given without proof. The outpost was studying the problem when the team was struck down by a burst of radiation. The rescue team begins a desperate search for the professor's notes, but the computer system has been badly damaged. Oddly enough, the nine cats in the outpost are still alive. When they notice that the behaviour of the cats is very uncat-like, and someone remembers that the professor was a believer in brain taping, the process of recording your memories to be restored into a clone after death, they realize that the professor taped his memories into the cats. The only problem now is, how to get them out.

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  • "Tomb Stone"
  • Paula L. Fleming
  • Issue #83 April 2 1999
  • Rat is a thief and always has been. He's also just a kid. When he gets caught with a pouch which isn't his, he manages to get loose and decides to get out of the city for a day or two. Outside, he enters a tomb where he plans to stay the night. While counting the gold from the pouch, he accidentally triggers a secret panel, revealing a huge gem. As he contemplates this treasure, a cold winds stirs across his back. He is suddenly on his feet and running, running for his life. On the road, he runs into two guardian priests. They get the story from him and decide that the gold he has could be best put to use paying his way into their college. So Rat grows up to be become a guardian priest. The priesthood also doesn't object to his occasional forays into old habits; after all, it is the dead they are concerned with, not the living. And since most of his thefts are used to get his childhood friends decent burials, they are content.

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  • "Tommy And The Mushroom King"
  • Howard Andrew Jones
  • Issue #152 July 28 2000
  • A wonderful tale told in the style and flavour of the old pulp fiction magazines. Tommy has a vivid imagination in which he is a member of the Dimension Patrol. Together, he and Captain Kyle battle the evil Mushroom King who is threatening to take over the world.

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  • "Trading Rocks"
  • Kate Tompkins
  • Issue #92 June 4 1999
  • Natasha is assistant to the Trade Negotiator of Earth. When a gift is delivered from the Ballomeloni, whom her boss is trying to get a trade agreement with, it gets stuck with her. It turns out to be a life-sized statue of Elvis which plays single lines from his songs, mixed with Ballomeloni phrases. She puzzles over it for several days when it slowly dawns on her that it's more than a weird gift, it's a teaching machine. She tells her boss that it's meant to teach them how to use Ballomeloni phrases. Her boss is an Important Person doing Important Things and can't be bothered with such nonsense, so Natasha better take care of it herself. So Natasha learns the Ballomeloni phrases. When her and her boss meet the Ballomeloni negotiator, Natasha greets him with the phrases. In the Ballomeloni culture, underlings are second class citizens and don't take part in Important Things. So naturally, the Ballomeloni is pleased that the Earth Negotiator enjoyed the gift and learned the phrases. Natasha looks forward to her new job as chief negotiator and thinks that trading rocks.

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  • "The Traveller"
  • Carolyn Scott
  • Issue #147 June 23 2000
  • A traveller turns up at a room and board house being run by a widow with two children. He is a mysterious man, about whom she can get no concrete details. But he seems nice enough and fixes things around the house. Even the children take a liking to him. Just as she starts thinking that she may be willing to have a relationship again, the traveller departs as mysteriously as he came. The traveller then returns to his own time period, in the future, to his dying father. The woman was his father's mother. His grandfather had died, leaving her a widow. The traveller tells his father that his grandfather had been a good man before he died, even though that was not necessarily the truth.

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  • "The Tryst of Equation"
  • R. S. Webb
  • Issue #115 November 12 1999
  • A wonderful story which presents a version of creation in the style of the old mythical tales. Forces of nature are personified as beings engaged in a struggle for supremacy, until the concept of mathematical order is imposed upon them.

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