Tag Archives: short story

Arthur C. Clarke on whales and nuclear holocausts

Posted on November 3, 2026 by smellincoffee

Recently I listened to two rather different Arthur C. Clarke stories. “All the Time in the World”. I originally experienced this as a Twilight Zone episode,  or so I thought,  in which a frustrated bank teller embraces a nuclear war … Continue reading →

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Saturday Shorts — This Long Vigil

Posted on June 14, 2025 by smellincoffee

Amid the deep, cold black of space, the generation ship Hermes cruises her way toward finding a new home for humanity at Tau Ceti. Or, at least the thousand souls who are aboard her. Unusually, though, these are not the … Continue reading →

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Moriarty, Consulting Criminal and Scroogled

Posted on October 17, 2023 by smellincoffee

Short rounds! One short story by Cory Doctorow and three short stories by Andy Weir. The first, Scroogled, is a very short story, just hitting 20 pages. Written in the mid-2000s, when Google was beginning its transformation from Mew to … Continue reading →

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