AntipodeanSF

A Ro Ankemon Adventure

By Michael Fowler

Pharaoh and his posse of the reborn were stepping out of their coffins after arriving in the afterlife. Bits of mummy wrap and sand in their clothes, tired looks but happy to be in the new palace. His beefy bodyguard informed him that the press had arrived for photos, and Pharaoh took out a pack of

By Richard Flores IV

It was the quietest part of the night, no one was out, and just the sounds of the occasional drop of water could be heard. A grey sedan drove through the intersection without so much as tapping the brakes. Officer Holt struggled to put his coffee in the cup holder while he hit the accelerator and flipped on the red and blue lights.

At this time of night

By KJ Hannah Greenberg

Most minorities suffer lifelong. It’s not so much that populations waive rights as it is that rulers elect to subdue challengers. After all, only a suppressed mindset questions restrictive social axioms and then continues to feel a regime’s pain.

At least, that’s what the Martians told me.

They claimed to have alighted on Earth to share

By Joseph Sullivan

The skull sat on the table, at once plain and macabre. All life had gone from it, and yet it seemed foreboding anyway, as though a grim message of the future that awaited everyone.

Reltanna Lirane, wayward wizard extraordinaire, was never one for necromancy, and even with her own hunger for all sorts of arcane knowledge, messing with the dead had an

By T.J. Weavers

There’s no one to blame really. Just the meteoroids. And maybe myself for wanting some alone time.

I sip some water from the pipette in my helmet. My throat is sore from useless shouting. Then I gulp it, consciously abandoning my training, abandoning caution. The ship spins back into view, I’m disconnected from it, irrevocably. I won’t need water much

By James C. Clar

“Meat always tastes better fresh,” Poppa pronounced as we walked through the public market located out where the wall of the pressure dome curved down and met the regolith. He held my hand in his, claws retracted so as not to hurt the tender skin on my palms. He could be uncommonly gentle for someone so big. Since my parents’ divorce, time spent with my

By Richard Roth

"Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of ‘world history,’ but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature

By Michael Barry

The prison dining hall was almost empty. On the TV a newscaster babbled:  “ — the Telekinetic Cracksman! Finally behind bars! Over 200 thefts internationally!”

A passing convict did a double-take, and cried, “Larry Gill!”

“Shut up,” Gill snapped. “Sit. Eat my dessert.”

“So generous!” the convict replied. “I’m

By JM Cyrus

The first thing that confused Jane that week was finding the tiny saddle amongst the strewn toys. She had been grumbling as she put the toys away, marvelling at how the three small people she shared her entire life and being with could be so messy.

“We’ve only been home for half an hour, how did you empty everything?”

The kettle whistled, the pot on the

By Kevin J. Phyland

The run from Vesta to Earth’s lunar orbit is routine.

You attach the cargo hull containing millions of tonnes of rare earth minerals, deuterium oxide and assorted precious metals, and slowboat it using the ion engines into a low-energy gravity assist path back to the world. Takes about a month usually.

The crew capsule is attached to the cargo