Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories

In 1977 Zah Helen, an undercover operative, receives a new high profile assignment to interfere with the human search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), so the efforts at one particular radio telescope will not spot a radio signal that has been accidentally sent toward the earth. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

An accident forces the crew of the interstellar ship Destiny to go in to hibernation while the robotic maintenance systems diagnose and fix the problems. During the emergency crucial instructions are lost causing the ship to go into orbit around around a star for 50 thousand years. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

During a period of intense solar flare activity Marianne and her family take a holiday at a remove wilderness cabin. This brings them close to a place called, the top of the sky, that some people think has mystical significance. What Marianne and her parents don’t realize, is that the top of the sky is also the destination for a group of aliens who live in the corona of the sun. Program Notes And...

In an attempt to regain its reputation as a leader in space research and exploration, the ancient Institute of Solar Studies in Babylon puts all its resources into a mission to the newly discovered comet Hale Bopp to study the object’s unusual behaviour. The mission is a success but the outcome is not what Fath Shah, the institute’s director, had planned on. Program Notes And Credits Opening and c...

In 1884 a school master named Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote the novella “Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions.” The book explored what it would be like to live in a two dimensional universe, and speculated that there might be other dimensions. The Abott’s story lay in obscurity until it was rediscovered in the early 20th century after Einstein wrote “The Theory of General Relativity” which discussed...

History is littered with discarded technologies and obsolete skills. In the last few decades whole industries have been swept away by ever moving waves of change, and it seems unavoidable that today’s high tech is destined to become tomorrow’s landfill or does it? In our story this month new meets old, makes friends and finds something valuable in the obsolescence of the recent past. P...

This month’s story is very loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen short tale The Emperor’s New Clothes. Amber is working as a stage director for the opening celebration of the project of century when her implanted communications chip starts to malfunction affecting her perception of reality. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com . Opening an...

This month’s story is based on a comment Steven Hawkins once made: We should probably not try to contact extraterrestrial civilizations. According to Hawkins, our own history has shown that contact between two cultures does not always go well for the people whose land is being visited. The last two scientists on a distant planet try to reverse the damage done to their culture by a group of suspect...

  After narrowly evading capture, Maya and Tim arrive in New Hudson and run into the man who had been following them in Waystation. The man claims he works with Maya’s parents, but neither Tim nor Maya trusts him. As the man drives them to Hudson Beach, in theory, to meet Maya’s parents, Maya receives a text message warning them to be careful and advising her and Tim to try and es...

Alonzo is forced to take his ailing, wealthy mother and her robotic wheel chair to an ultra expensive all inclusive health spa. The doctors and specialists told him that the legendary algae baths, unique to the exclusive beach resort of Vida Del Mar, are his mother’s best chance for recovery. Alonzo believes that the treatment is a hoax and sets out to prove it, but accidentally finds out th...

Aura lives with her mother and brothers, making a modest living from a concession stand. Her life in the themed dome park Timber World is thrown into chaos when an unexpected event forces her to leave to save her family’s livelihood. In the process, Aura discovers a secret that must be kept from her family and friends. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soun...

  After discovering more incriminating evidence against them planted on the café’s computer, Maya and Tim decide to flee when net regulatory agents appear. In an attempt to find Maya’s parents, they take the train to New Hudson Beach. Along the way, they are helped by the odd bag lady’s secret organization, but neither Tim nor Maya knows who, other than the authorities, is chasing them or why...

With the first Moon landings in the late 1960s, many may have felt that a Mars mission was not too far off, but since then, no human has left near Earth orbit. On the 200th anniversary of the first moon landing, an international mission is poised to be the first human presence on Mars, but events are more complex than they seem. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects...

  Maya and Tim live in a future powered by coal, kids over eight must work for a living, and reality is not what it seems. Tim’s parents died after a random traffic accident, leaving him alone and in debt for the medical expenses. Unable to pay, his liabilities were auctioned off to a family who owns a café, where he now has to work until their daughter, Maya, finishes college. When two myste...

  An astronomer watching for near-earth objects makes a shocking discovery that forces Adrian out of hiding. Adrian realizes that events in the past have led to a disaster in the present. He is forced to intervene and change history, but the results are not entirely what he had planned. This episode revisits the original series from year one. Program Notes And Credits Background audio texture...

An automated planetary mission goes awry when it is hit by solar flares. Unit C-11, one of the landing group’s communication nodes, attempts to repair its damaged memory with information erroneously downloaded from the mission’s orbiter. Once assimilated, the information along with a comment from one of the mission control hubs, convinces the tiny robot that it is a knight-errant on an important q...

  Lambent Nape Nor works at the Infinite Macro Cosmic Reality Corporation as the assistant head of product design and customer services for Universe 8. Despite Lambent’s concerns, management insists on a last-minute change to an already rushed update. It quickly becomes evident that the change does more than they had intended. The week’s story is based on the idea proposed by physicist David...

  Maya and Tim live in a future powered by coal, and kids over eight must work for a living, but reality is not what it seems. Tim’s parents died after a random traffic accident, leaving him alone and in debt for the medical expenses. Unable to pay, his liabilities were auctioned off to a family who owns a café, where he now has to work until their daughter, Maya, finishes college. After rece...

  An imminent invasion derails a 500-year-old terraforming project. No one, except a small group of scientists, understands the threat’s true nature and its implications for the future of their civilization. This story evolved out of a discussion on James Lovelock‘s Gaia hypothesis that the earth is a single complex organism, the recent announcement of the creation of a synthetic genome...

After being sucked into a wormhole created when Luki used Len’s unfinished hyper dry modification to the ship’s clothes dryer, the crew of the Hyper Nova are stranded on a strange planet called Atma, which is being smothered in the lost laundry, the local inhabitants, who are ungulate-like creatures with three legs, believe that the Hyper Nova was sent from the great sky herd in answer to their pl...

  This month, we present two short stories. In the first one, Perspectives, a routine mission is suddenly changed by a chance encounter in deep space. This story evolved out of one of David’s writing assignments at school. In our second story, entitled, The Mission, the leader of a multi-generally space craft reports their research findings after nearly 50 years of silence. This story grew ou...

  A heavy rain storm breaks Way Station’s heat wave, but along with the storm, two strange customers appear at the Europa Café. They appear to know more than they should, which spooks Maya. After hearing about them, Tim tells Maya about some other odd happenings and is spooked by an unexpected message. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Openin...

  A passing celestial being is trapped by Earth’s gravity and reluctantly dragged to its surface in the middle of a Moscow winter. Stranded in the body of a dog, the alien being is forced to intervene in the early Russian Space program to get a ride home. The story is loosely based on the Sputnik 2 mission, which carried a dog named Laika into space on November 3, 1957. Program Notes An...

  Life on board the Hyper Nova begins to settle down into a routine until a series of random events collide with one of Len’s pet projects, causing the ship and its crew to get sucked into a hole in space. As they start repairs, Luki encounters the angry local inhabitants of a strange alien world.   Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects: Mars: The Planets...

  Time can seem to slow down when there is nothing to do, and this was particularly true for Abeo who had been forced to endure a summer without her friends on a lonely research station. Her father and the other adults were too distracted by some unusual observations to pay attention to Abeo. One day she finds a mysterious friend her own age in a field, and her summer begins to pass quickly,...