Tag: scifi

Civilization and Power

It’s All About Power
Part 3 of World Build­ing for Sci­ence fic­tion: This is the def­i­n­i­tion of the Kar­da­shev Scale.  Since it is a mea­sure of the pow­er gen­er­at­ed by a civ­i­liza­tion, it is titled: All about Pow­er. In case you’ve missed the pre­vi­ous posts in the thread, Part 1 begins here. The pre­vi­ous post in this thread, Part […]
Short science fiction by Torn MacAlester

Commander: A Vignette by Torn MacAlester

Com­man­der
Image by Torn MacAlester using Open­Sim By Torn MacAlester   The events in the crater weighed heav­i­ly on Nils Carmike. He near­ly killed his com­man­der, Mose. It was an acci­dent. Though, he felt defeat­ed as he stared out the Moon-ship win­dow, look­ing at the crater where it occurred. “I need to put you on this […]
Short science fiction by Torn MacAlester

Golf and Outgassing: a short story by Torn Macalester

Golf and Outgassing
Graph­ic By Shan­nan Albright A six­ty-year-old Moon mys­tery prompts Colonel Annie Mac­turn­er to make a risky deci­sion. Intrigued by an inter­view designed to manip­u­late, Mil­ton John­son, a can­di­date that con­flicts with her high­ly dis­tin­guished mil­i­tary back­ground, is select­ed as her crew-mate. Can Annie solve the land­ing site mys­tery and unrav­el Milton’s enig­ma before a life-threatening […]

Y+1: A Vignette by Torn MacAlester

Y+1
by Torn MacAlester This morn­ing on the Night Watch Live AM, we are speak­ing with Nick in Mon­tana, who’s been liv­ing inside of the blast zone of Yel­low­stone since the explo­sion last year. Nick, we have a caller on line two, are you ready for ques­tions from the audi­ence? “Go ahead Sam,” I said, pouring […]
Short science fiction by Torn MacAlester