Alarms echoed across the port: the spacecraft was unauthorized and it was heading their way. This could mean extreme danger. But never in a million years could they have realized the true cost of what would happen when it landed.
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An inter-planetary transporter runs on its kitchen. Whether it’s company, comfort or coffee you need, you’ll find it in the diner. Even today, with emergency sirens blaring and the ship lurching, there’s time to eat. Just…

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It seemed like the perfect plan: the key to immortality. Just a session with the scanner and his digital self would be a reality. A whole new life would stretch before him. The only question was: what could he see through the window?

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She’d known it would happen, and now it was official. Exile. But then, she’d never had choice: it was the price she knew she had to pay. For her. For her companion.

And for the world.

#scifi by @christinwrites.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Want to understand a long-lost alien culture? Want to get up close to the past? Then come to the Utheri Archaeological Park! A great day out that is educational, informative … and only very slightly extremely dangerous! Book now!

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The system was ready. Eager to absorb her knowledge. Every part of her language, every grammatical nuance, every twist of her tongue.

And it learnt. Fast. But the question remained: it could speak but did it understand?

#scifi by Toshiya Kamei www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today’s the day order gets restored, meaning he would be OK for another month. They’d promised, after the lawsuit. It was the least they owed him. But today, things aren’t right. There’s no way his wife should be like this…

#scifi by K. J. Zimring www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This was not what he’d expected. He knew the process had changed. Evolved. But still. The scene before him was more violent than he’d anticipated. After all, his goal was simple. So simple it now, seemingly, involved armies — and much worse.

#scifi by Carl Goodman www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The planet was safe. The air breathable. Better still were the remarkable finds. The stone relics with their signs of a long-lost civilization. The novel vegetation. This world looked like it would be a gift that would keep on giving.

#scifi by Alan Dove www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I was confident when I signed up. This was such an easy way to get a PhD. My career rested on one simple task. One simple task that, it turns out, might not be so simple. Why else would I be stuck in space station staring at a vent?

#scifi by @sayanmitra.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To all intents and purposes, she is my daughter. But she isn’t. Not really. In fact, if I’m honest, she’s not even human. She looks the part. But she’s synthetic. Artificial. She’s designed to help — it’s just, I wonder if she does.

#scifi by Dandan Peng www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My sister is out there somewhere, I know it. Sure, she’s stopped syncing, but that just means her quest for something more is going well. She’s making progress. All I have to do is find her trail and follow her. How hard can it be?

#scifi by @akasylvia.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Food. It’s one of the great pleasures of life. And one of its necessities. Which means that, no matter where you look in time — the distant past, the far-flung future —one question will always resonate.

What’s for dinner?

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