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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