Chrizt, if you don't believe that schools are actually prisons, try walking out of one without a permission slip.  Outside in the hallway I'm confronted by another holographic teacher, a plump friendly

'Now class,' says the holoteacher in his dreary grey monotone excuse for living humanity. 'In today's lesson we will be covering some of the more important aspects of the Thirty-Third Consumer Crisis,

Back to School - Ferris Bueller style ... 'Now class,' says the holoteacher in his dreary grey monotone excuse for living humanity. 'In today's lesson we will be covering some of the more important aspects

Back to School - Ferris Bueller style ... (Episode 1 can be read here) TWO MONTHS EARLIER 'Atleran?' 'Here.' 'Avardi?' 'Here.' 'Bitman?' Silence prompts the grey-haired holoteacher to scan the classroom

Way out here in Space, you know you're in trouble when the ship's crew look as bad as they do right now.    Jezuz Chrizt, I've seen Deathball teams near the end of the ninth period, five men

Secret Rulers of the World. Streaming Intelligences. Aliens. Talking manimals. The Crypto-Nation. The Deep Wire. Fall Worlds. Wild Worlds. Space nomads. Crowd-funded Resistance. Orbital Junk Cities. Planet

The ship is vibrating as its ion drives slowly increase towards a hard burn. Syn the engineer, the only crew-member not to have turned up for the crisis meeting, has finally fixed some of the damaged

Part 2 I'm thinking that Mansun really means to shoot me here, that he's backing me along a passage so he can do it out of sight of the others. Adrenaline races through me, sharpening everything. The rest

The High Wild is a passion project based on my love of Space-SF TV shows and fugitive-on-the-run stories ... Part 1 Way out here in Space you know you're in trouble, the worst kind of trouble, when the