Short Stories/Novellas
Sci Phi is an online science fiction and philosophy magazine. In each issue you will find stories that explore questions of life, the universe and everything and articles that delve into the deep philosophical waters of science fiction universes. This month we have, The start of a wonderfully Sci Phi Serial from Ben Zwycky, Beyond the Mist that was also the inspiration for our spectacular cover art. It kicks off with our protagonist falling through the mist of the title and just gets stranger from there. We also have original Science Fiction stories from Peter Sean Bradley - Ghosts - A tale of a future wedding gone weird Emmanuel A. Mateo-Morales - The First Step - Witness the end of a mad dream and the end of a future war David Hallquist - The Quantum Process - A bid for immortality that doesn't go quite as planned! Lou Antonelli - On a Spiritual Plain - A Chaplin meets a confused soul on an alien mining colony Steve Sagarra - Terra in Vista - A crew of explorers meet someone unexpected on a new world Original Essays by David Kyle Johnson - On the Moral of Hide and Q - An exploration of the ethics of being Q John C. Wright - Prophetic & Apotropaic Science Fiction - Does Science Fiction predict the future? Patrick S. Baker - On the Ethics of Super Soldiers - Is it right to make Super Soldiers and what do we owe them? Tom Simon - The Making of the Fellowship - A study on the nature of the Good in Middle Earth And we have more book reviews by Peter Sean Bradley
Lou Antonelli, a finalist for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2013, pens an alternate history story about a Watergate scandal in an America with a monarchy - and Richard Nixon is King!
A "found" story from the zombie apolcalypse.
A short story originally published in Jim Baen’s Universe in April 2008, recipient of an Honorable Mention in "The Year's Best Science Fiction" published in 2009 by St. Martin's Press.
Originally published by Daily Science Fiction in May 2012, "Great White Ship" was a finalist in the short story category for the Sidewise Award for alternate history in 2013.
"Circe in Vitro" was originally published in Astounding Tales, Dec. 2004. It received an Honorable Mention in "The Year's Best Science Fiction, 22nd annual collection (2005)" published by St. Martin's Press.
An imaginative alternate history taleabout a Cold War and Beatnik Era that never happened
Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, Sept. 2005. Cited an as honorable mention in "The Year's Best Science Fiction" published in 2006. Placed third in the Asimov's Science Fiction Readers Poll for 2005 in the short story category.
Originally published in Andromeda Spaceways In-flight Magazine (Australia) June-July 2005. Recipient of an Honorable Mention in "The Year's Best Science Fiction" published in 2006.
With a few twists of history, America develops as the apartheid state instead of South Africa. Originally published in Atomjack magazine in March 2007.
An alternate history story set in a modern day world that remains pagan.
A secret history about the secret of the Yellow Rose of Texas. Originally published in Surprising Stories, May 2006.
Traveling through Texas during Reconstruction, a medicine show charlatan stumbles across more than he bargained for. Originally published in Science Fiction Trails, Spring 2009.