Stories tagged “end of world”
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A Realistic Alien Invasion?
Nothing goes faster than light: rule of the universe. No artificial minds shall be allowed to live: rule of the People. For a galactic rotation we have been locked in battle with the Machines. Two exponentially-reproducing resource-using foes, in near ...
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Floating Away
An orange Earth was a sight I never thought I would see. As boiling rock continued to appear and spread on the surface of my beautiful, once-blue home, I just floated in the command console, eyes fixed on the realtime screen, unable to make a sound. Be...
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At peace with the unknown
The night sky was engulfed by yearly meteor showers. I stood there watching immense beauty be taken over by fear in an instant. An intense red flash filled the night sky as the ground beneath me begun to shake. I stood there alone as my family slept in...
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Natural Selection
Consider the abilities of the deities of myth and legend: Raining fire from the sky to reduce cities to ash, calling forth thunder and lightning, creating life. All these things are now in our grasp. What, then, are gods? What, then, are we? I write th...