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Latest Science Fiction Story

What Do You Mean the Nanobots Formed a Union??

by Joel W. D. Buxton

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“What do you mean the nanobots formed a union??” I asked the lawyer, biting my thumbnail.

It’s an old habit, kept up well after I got the “Pro Nano Blitz Package,” as the ad called it. A muscular man in tight clothing explained: a quick, painless injection, then a couple days sick as a dog, then another month for the nanobots to multiply, specialize, and spread out through the body. Then: easy street.

Latest Fantasy Story

Of All Who Dream

by Adelehin Ijasan

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“God” is not the word I’d use. But it is the only one that suffices. There are all kinds of gods: the old and the new; the useful, the useless; the capricious and the dependable; the wrathful and the meek. They all had one thing in common—whether they were created at the dawn of time when hunter-gatherers huddled in caves and cowered at the crack of thunder, or they were engineered by men in frocks, or worse, born of minds harvested by modern technology—all gods were born starving.

Latest Nonfiction

Book Review: Forged in FIYAH by DaVaun Sanders, ed.

by Arley Sorg

Read more Black authors! Arley Sorg recommends a great anthology featuring eighteen original stories chosen by the editor of FIYAH magazine.

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