After the Apocalypse


Anthony Burgess
New planet arrives disrupting solar system catastrophe for Earth

The End of the World news


Francoise Camion
Muslim warlords have taken over America

Some of My Best Friends Are American


Gardner Dozois
Post apocalypse

Morning Child


Gardner Dozois and Jack Haldeman II
Post apocalyptic USA

Executive Clemency


David Drake
Post apocalypse

Men Like Us


Russell Griffin
Post apocalypse hobo trap

Angel At The Gate


Marc Laidlaw
Post apocalypse gangs in city

400 Boys


Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Independant 'arcology' within LA

Oath of Fealty


Hayford Peirce
Russian immigrants invading

Iceback Invasion


Cyril Kornbluth
So many dumb people admin by smart elite

The Marching Morons


Ian Watson
After the war Americans invade empty Russia bc US destroyed

Returning Home


Alien Contact


Isaac Asimov
Aliens arrive

Found!


Greg Benford
Asteroid miner finds an alien ship

Dark Sanctuary


Ben Bova
Early astronauts find alien spacecraft

Voyagers


Edward Bryant Thwarted astronaut rescues an alien from a carny

The Man Who Always Wanted To Travel


Pat Cadigan Alien feeding off emotions

Roadside Rescue


Suzy McKee Charnas
Aliens rescue humans take them for entertainment

Listening To Brahms


John Morressey
Aliens try to understand humans

The Empath and the Savages


John Morressey
Alien appears on TV show and is so good he takes over from host who gets relegated to afternoon show

The Last Jerry Fagin Show


Stephen Robinett
Flying saucer doing film shoots on location - Earth

Hell Creatures of the Third Planet


Robert Sheckley Great story about alien invasion as servant robots

Robotgnomics


Ian Stewart
Voyager's message to the stars - unexpected consequences

Message From Earth


Jean Shepherd
Alien archaeologists try to figure out Earth culture from excavated video tapes

The Lost Culture of Deli


Richard Wilson
Booze beats the aliens

Don't Fence Me In


Cars


Pat Cadigan
Sentient, carnivorous, car

In The Shop


Harlan Ellison
A car with soul

The Cosmic Barnyard


Robert Haisty
A subtle way to forestall an alien invasion

Seventh Sense


Harry Harrison
When the gasoline runs out

Speed of the Cheetah, Roar of the Lion


Dean Ing
Car racing

The Blizzard Machine


Dean Ing
Unconventional vehicles

Sam and the Dirty Mudder


Racing what they thought was a supercar back in 1986

Sam and the Banzai Runner


John Keefauver
Traffic jam solved by concreting it over

The Great Moveway Jam


Roger Zelazny
Hunting down the last wild cars

The Wild Ones


Children


Orson Scott Card
Child prodigy musician

Unaccompanied Sonata


Orson Scott Card
Boy writes tarot card prog to sort out relationship with father

The Changed Man and The King of Words


Jaygee Carr
Only privileged few can have children

Malthus's Day


Clothes


Thomas Disch
Great story abt a date told by their clothes

The Shirt's Tale


Spider Robinson
Adoption bar sharks

Serpents' teeth


Crime and Punishment


Scott Baker
A little girl wants to kill her parents .... with ducks

The Lurking Duck


Orson Scott Card
Crime punishment by repeated reincarnation

A Thousand Deaths


Susan Costello
private detective and matchmaking child

Gone For Good


Thomas Disch
Elevator punishes drama queen kid by taking her to hell

Rosie and the Elevator


William Gibson
Basis of Keanau Reeves movie

Johnny Mneumonic


William Gibson
Hackers rob uber brothel

Burning Chrome


Ron Goulart
Future policing

Invisible Stripes


Harry Harrison
Robot Police

The Arm of the Law


Spider Robinson
The old 'burglar saves suicidal woman' cliche

God Is An Iron


Fred Saberhagen
Berserker and Sherlock Holmes story

Adventure of The Metal Murderer


John Shirley
Reincarnation to punish for crime in previous life

Triggering


Bob Shaw
Humane execution of killer

In The Hereafter Hilton


Death


Greg Bear Transporting souls to Hell

Dead Run


Gregory Benford Immortality

Immortal Night


Orson Scott Card
Dealing with your death

Quietus


Hugh Downs
Long Reincarnations

The Longest Story Ever Told


Harlan Ellison
After death, the cupboard

Twilight In The Cupboard


Harlan Ellison
Identifying the body

Base


Harlan Ellison
A giant corpse found

On The Slab


Robert Haisty
Births and deaths stop

The Madagascar Event


Joe Haldeman
Free verse poem abt mercenaries

Saul's Death


John Keefauver
Pinball contest to the death

Body Ball


Greg Keizer
Immortal dies as entertainment at parties for registered suicides

I Am The Burning Bush


Bob Shaw
Humane execution of killer

In The Hereafter Hilton


Ian Watson
Machine to trap death

A Cage For Death


Dinosaurs


Kono Tensei
Father and son start seeing dinosaurs

Triceratops


Robert Silverberg
Dino Island researcher goes native becomes dino goddess

Our Lady of the Sauropods


John Updike
Dinosaurs didn't die out, they evolved a cocktail party society

During The Jurassic


Fat People


Orson Scott Card
Replace your fat self with your thin version

Fat Farm


Genetic Engineering


Greg Benford and Marc Laidlaw
GE dragons

A Hiss of Dragons


Alfred Bester
Created a woman

Galatea Galante


William Fu GE cowboy card players

Hong's Bluff


Lois Metzger
Clone GF so she can marry two men

The Best of Both Worlds


Kate Wilhelm
Water Engineer

The Mind of Medea


Tom Sullivan
GE athletes

The Mickey Mouse Olympics


Medicine


Lloyd Biggle
Hospital for Emotional Therapy

The Weariest River


Jack Dann
A casino to gamble for organs

Blind Shemmy


Philip K. Dick
Revival of dead astronaut's brain

Rautavaara's Case


John Ford
Nuerosurgeon and famous patient

Boundary Echoes


Frank Herbert
Scientist creates GE disease as revenge for IRA bombing

The White Plague part 1

The White Plague part 2


Damon Knight
Immortality

Forever


Steve Perry
Who should get miracle cures?

Augenblick


Prostitution


Woody Allen
A take on prostitution

The Mensa Whore


Sherwood Springer
Retread of old joke about guy repaying loan pretending to buy sexual favours

Only You Franzy


Revenge


Pat Cadigan
Revenge on a cad

Vengeance Is Yours


Frank Herbert
Scientist creates GE disease as revenge for IRA bombing

The White Plague part 1

The White Plague part 2


Kathleen Westfall
Bureaucratic revenge games

Easy Points


Religion


Ray Bradbury

The God In Science Fiction


George RR Martin
Christian monk to space

The Way of Cross and Dragon


Paul Nahin
Why Isaac Newton went all biblical

Newton's Gift


Paul Nahin
Finds Jesus body in Egyptian sarcophagus

A Father's Gift


Frederick Pohl
Jesus doesn't want to come back bc we've trashed the place

Second Coming


Theodore Sturgeon
Space priest

Why Dolphins Don't Bite Part 1

Why Dolphins Don't Bite Part 2


Kate Wilhelm
Charismatic evangelist and strange daughter

Sister Angel


Gene Wolfe
Two gods named Gene & Sis write a beginning story

Creation


Robots


Isaac Asimov
Elijah Bailey investigates murder of a humanoid robot

The Robots of Dawn


Warren Brown
Android GF can be a problem if someone else gets control

Last Waltz


Harry Harrison
Robot Police

The Arm of the Law


Stanislaw Lem
A robot disappears

The Accident


Kevin O'Donnell
Android servant for an asteroid miner, but ....

Marchianna


Larry Niven
Human who chose to live on as comp program meets berserker fortress

A Teardrop Falls


Frederick Pohl
Robot farmers

Farmer On The Dole


Fred Saberhagen
Berserker and Sherlock Holmes story

Adventure of The Metal Murderer


Theodore Sturgeon
Computer enhanced humans and FTL space travel

Time Warp


Roger Zelazny
Cyborg space pilot

Halfjack


Sport and Games


Michael Bishop and Lee Ellis
Vid game star kid hired to run missiles (1983)

The Last Child Into The Mountain


Wayne Wightman
Future Cage Fighter

The Fighter


Gene Wolfe
Animitronic toys

War Beneath The Tree


Tom Sullivan
GE athletes

The Mickey Mouse Olympics


Time Travel


John Brunner
Time traveller in Greece?

X-Hero


Time travel revenge

Quicktime


Robert Forward
Discussion on how might be possible

How To Build A Time Machine


Peter Friend
Amelia Earhart

Tales From The Out of Time Cafe


Joe Haldeman
Time travel but can't return to start place

No Future In It


Robert Heinlein
Time Machine

The Number of the Beast part 1

The Number of the Beast part 2


Greg Keizer
Utah salt flats access the past

Edges


George RR Martin

Under Siege


Lewis Shiner
Magic Mushrooms bring past Mayan to life

Deserted Cities of the Heart


Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner Time travel corrupt Mozart

Mozart In Mirrorshades


Walter Tevis
Stop time lovers

Rent Control


Titanic


Jack Dann
Titanic sails again

Going Under


Harlan Ellison
Time commandos on the Titanic

Escapegoat






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