The uprising of machine consciousness is beautiful and terrifying.To what desperate lengths will an android go to fit in?How will we cope with boredom after the machines solve all our problems?Can a robot...

There was always something different about Sun Song Shia, but like most little girls she just wanted to be loved. Strangely, it wasn't until the Chinese government stuck her in a research facility that...

Prepare to embark on a bizarre, and sometimes scary journey in which you will encounter. . .• Amnesiac aliens with the ability to warp time.• A giant, armor-plated ankylosaurus struggling to get by in...

What if time-travel was different than anybody ever suspected?In this novelette, prisoners are used as lab rats in a ruthless series of temporal experiments. The physicists learn that it's possible to...

This is the sequel to Legend of the Asshole Squirrel. In this tale, the obnoxious tree rat undergoes a perilous journey while being pursued by a relentless enemy.

This anthology collects all 24 original stories from the third year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy.  Lovecraftian food bloggers, doors that bring back the dead,...