Sci Fi
The Paradox of Fiction
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Anteros screamed anyway. He knew the audio speaker was engaging, but his audio receptors couldn’t detect the sound. The strange ship which had brought them out here appeared to be spinning around and getting smaller. In reality, he was the one spinning around and drifting further away at an alarming speed. In 28 seconds, the ship would just be a white dot reflecting Sol’s light and therefore look just like another star. Anteros screamed again.
By Sean Selleck4 years ago in Fiction
The End's Beginning
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. This wasn't screaming though, and they weren't carbon based lifeforms. Though they were birthed, made, constructed by humans, humans could never comprehend the ability for such beings to exist, let alone on how to properly live together with such creations. Now, there was only three landmarks all throughout the universe. The first being the dark little ball of dirt where their eggs had originated from, the second being the remains of the Quilter as not everything was torn to shreds by the blast of neutrinos, and third was this glowing spherical orb that radiated with energy, giving off both light and heat.
By Thavien Yliaster4 years ago in Fiction
The 12 Labors
"Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. So, I suggest we send all these repulsive beasts to space and find out!" Mr. Ellis said. The three other white men around the table burst into laughter. The men were known as the Patriarchs, the country's leaders.
By Delwin Marrero4 years ago in Fiction
Where the Gods Play
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. It was a vivid warning passed on to space cadets in basic training. It was a truth accepted as an absolute by every single person who ventured into space. In the early days of space travel, they found out the hard way that taking short cuts led to tragedy. No human now ventured into space without an awareness of the risk and without a great respect for personal safety in space, whether their own or that of their fellow crew. No-one survives alone in space. It requires a team working together for all to stay safe. Never in the history of humankind had people worked together so well.
By Tracey Zielinski4 years ago in Fiction
New Worlds
CHAPTER 1 - The Departure Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. - “Mayday! Mayday! Our ship is going off course and the routing systems are failing. We are heading straight into the asteroid belt. We need you to manually override our ship and reroute us immediately!” Captain Luke Reid relayed over the radio for what seemed like the thousandth time in the last 6 days. His clammy hand shook as he lowered the mic he had a vise grip on. His hazel eyes stared intensely at the screens on the instrument panel as they lit up with flashing red warning signs. He looked up from the screens and out the giant window that spanned across the whole bridge of the ship.
By Tyler Cantos4 years ago in Fiction
Why Is Dave In Space?
Why Is Dave In Space? Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Of course, there are several ways to be ‘in space.’ First, you could be floating around in space without a space suit on. That would probably make you scream. And, yes, I doubt anyone would hear it. Alternatively, you could be floating around while wearing a space suit. Any screaming would be dependent on whether or not you were still attached to the spaceship. But there’s another way to be in space. When you wake up and find yourself in a spaceship traveling through the galaxy.
By Malcolm Mackinnon4 years ago in Fiction
A New Earth
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. I guess it’s true. Year after year I stared out the window of the ship’s cafeteria. We’ve seen space debris collide and comets speed by but the only sound is the constant hum of the ship's engines. The same hum I've heard all my life, that my parents listened to, and their parents before them. Hundreds of years we’ve survived on the Ark waiting for the Earth below, our true home, to heal itself from the damage our ancestors had inflicted on it before fleeing on the giant ship we live on now. About a year ago we started seeing signs that it might be time and sent down drones. The air was breathable! Actually it was even more oxygenated than it had been. The water samples came back clean but with high levels of algae. Then the most amazing discovery came with the images the drone was programmed to record. Life. There was life growing on our planet. Like us in that they were humanoid but also so very much like us. Were they also of our ancestors that were left behind and evolved? Or were they something new? Many of us wanted to immediately abandon the Ark and move our whole population down but what if the new natives were violent? Was the air really breathable? Could we really survive? We had so many questions. So a group was formed. Volunteers to explore the unfamiliar world below and be the guinea pigs to gauge if we could at last return, and survive it.
By Leigh Ann Tuttle4 years ago in Fiction
Unit 735
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Many different races of sapients used this phrase, or something similar, and Unit 735 had at first deduced that it was a literal instruction that distress signals through vacuum must be accomplished via light rather than sound. However, the unit had observed sapients using the phrase in situations for which this meaning would be inappropriate, leading it to conclude that there must be some other meaning. Sapients sometimes used words in strange ways, but the unit was often unable to interpret these instances, because its operators always instructed it using precise language. It did not matter, as the unit was not programmed to express fear or pain in the same way sapients did.
By Phoenix Drake4 years ago in Fiction
