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Brutalist Stories #22
He makes his way, amidst the ruins, through the mist of the night, slowly turning into a fog of dawn, that will lift soon and uncover the detail that he seeks.
Brutalist StoriesPublished 7 years ago in FuturismOutrun Stories #22
Hope’s a funny kind of pain. I mean, in comparison to everything else it holds its own. You can be bruised and battered and hammered into the fucking ground with bullets and bats and fuck, that all hurts like hell, but hoping that it will end. Hoping that something better is coming. Hoping that you’ll get out. That’s a different type of pain all together.
Outrun StoriesPublished 7 years ago in FuturismRobosexuality: The Science Fiction That Predicted Humans Falling In Love With Robots
Twenty years ago, if you would have said that there would be people out there who have robotic girlfriends or digital girls, most people would have laughed. However, nobody's laughing today. The demand for robotic lovers is growing - and companies are legitimately working to give people the robo-lovers they want.
Ossiana TepfenhartPublished 7 years ago in FuturismThe Electric Poet
This story is excerpted from the novel Haveck: The First Transhuman by Matt Cates (Sable Mare Media, 2015). Smiljan Village, Croatia, 7 August 1864
Matt CatesPublished 7 years ago in FuturismOutrun Stories #21
What the fuck am I doing here, why the fuck did I even take this job? Out of all the jobs in all the cities I end up here with this fucking kid hacking into this rich asshole’s private stash, not my sort of job, but Backstorm isn’t the sort of guy that you just walk away from when he makes you an offer.
Outrun StoriesPublished 7 years ago in FuturismBrutalist Stories #21
A lifetime of preparation coming down to a moment. The training, all the hours, the pain, the suffering that we all had to go through, now all boiling down to this instance, this next step, and if we succeed, the other world, and if we fail, well…
Brutalist StoriesPublished 7 years ago in FuturismScreaming Metal (Part 008)
And manhandling her as her earlier captors had, he shoved her through a portal and then thrust something small and hard into her hands.
Made in DNAPublished 7 years ago in FuturismIn the Author’s Universe: Interview with Author Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is a poet, a novelist, and an inventor. She was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1939 to Margaret (maiden name Killam), a nutritionist and to Carl Atwood, an entomologist. With her father’s research in entomology, her early childhood was spent deep in the forests of Canada. Always a voracious reader, she knew by the age of sixteen that writing would be her vocation. Atwood graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor’s degree in English from Victoria College in the University of Toronto, and in 1962, received a Master’s Degree from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA.
K.E. LanningPublished 7 years ago in FuturismOutrun Stories #20
I know that I’ve always chosen to walk a different path, alone and along the lines that suited me best, following the rules that I knew to be right, the code. I wasn’t born to be a sheep, but I certainly wasn’t born to be a shepherd either.
Outrun StoriesPublished 7 years ago in FuturismBrutalist Stories #20
I have a dream where I’m breathing water, and I’m only ever breathing in. I’m not under water, there’s a mask attached to my face that supplies the water. I breathe in, deep and deeper still, the water flows, down into my lungs and I don’t choke and I don’t breathe out. I just stop. It holds and holds and then it’s gone, then I breathe in again. Only ever in. Only ever water.
Brutalist StoriesPublished 7 years ago in FuturismThe Lathe of Heaven Proves Idealists Can Be the Most Dangerous Among Us
I read Poland by James Michener a number of years ago and came to a startling conclusion after reading the chapters on the Nazi Occupation during World War II. I certainly know of the Holocaust and that Hitler wasn’t particularly fond of Poles in general. But I was not aware that his long term goal was to not only eradicate every single Polish person from that country but from the face of the earth. Wow. The question that then arose is how do you get an entire occupying force – especially professional soldiers and officers - to carry out such a definitive and horrific action? Well, if they think they are making the world a better place, it’s easy, and that’s what Nazi indoctrination made them think. In this, I determined that idealists can be the most dangerous among us, and that was what came to me as I watched the 1980 PBS adaptation of Ursula Le Guin’s, The Lathe of Heaven.
Rich MonettiPublished 7 years ago in FuturismBrutalist Stories #19
We need God, that was the conclusion. For all that we’ve done, all the progress that we’ve made, there was still that feeling that we as humans could not get over; are we related to something infinite?
Brutalist StoriesPublished 7 years ago in Futurism