Stories tagged “simulation”
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Total Immersion
Alarm bells ringing, smelling molten metal yielded under plasma fire, I shunt my way across the deck – nervous that my movements leave ripples in the smoke. Signals fly into my headset – commands, instructions, shouts and screams of pain fr...
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High Noon
A crow flaps its wings as it flies overhead Main Street. The sun just about at it’s pinnacle in the sky. George stands in the middle of the street waiting, hands on his belt. He looks up at the sun. A crowd begins to gather along the street. Ther...
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Mass/Energy Equivalence, or: The Repairman
40 minutes, give or take: how long they have to fix things when they go wrong. Always this planet, always this species. The repairman sighed. The computer code for the universe had been simple enough, and then these damn humans started tinkering with i...
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Dead Pixels
It was a beautiful, clear night as he walked his dog through the dark outskirts of his town. An inveterate stargazer, his attention strayed ever upwards to the sky, appreciating the beauty he found there, the sheer artistry involved. And then, as his l...