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Category Archives: Science Fiction
Light Picks Out Detail
My hair is greying and my skin pulls up into powder light dunes. My arms are sprayed onto my torso, white brushed with sodium brick and chain link rejection, where I crawl face down on the carpet like a pork-chop … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science Fiction, Scraplets
Tagged archive, Benjamin F Jones, burlesque bunny, cough clouds, creative prose, Creative writing, d-pond, drugs, emotionless, experimental, friday, frozen paper, graphite bunny, journey home, May 2001, powder, Prose, purple prose, science fiction, sucking my heart, surreal, twisted, writing
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400 years between stars
I am very pleased to say that my first novel is out in e-book and POD format with wingsepress.com/ You can read the first chapter here. Reaching the planet’s surface, Dyandra is horrified to discover that only half of the crew touched … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, WIP
Tagged 400 years, 400 years between stars, 978-1-61309-187-6, 978-1-61309-821-9, adventure, AI, all female crew, Benjamin F Jones, bio-engineering, class inversion, coercion, colonisation, Colonization, compost, diaspora, drugs, dyandra, egeno, emotional damage, ethics, exploration, family, fantastic fauna fantastic flora, female antagonist, female protagonist, foundation, founders, founding, friendship, generation ships, graphite bunny, gravity, hostage, human virus, hydroponics, Ill health, illness, moral dilemma, morals, mutiny, new colony, older protagonist, power struggles, primitive planet, science fiction, seed ship, spacewalk, Speculative bunny, Speculative Fiction, spores, Stockholm Syndrome, sub light travel, survival mission, survivor, technology, wingsepress, women
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Linked to the Dummy Box
Polyester resin and copper shavings are an essential component of invitro reproduction and subsequent implantation within synthetic wombs. In this enhanced reality the distribution of orgone related materials generates a social group who reject immortalist technology. This sub-culture promotes emergent … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Science Fiction, Snapshots
Tagged alternative reality, beating the black dog, Benjamin F Jones, creative prose, Creative writing, dummy box, existential, graphite bunny, immortalist technology, multiverse, post-human, Prose, reproduction, sci-fi, science fiction, short prose, sub-culture, sub-culture bunny, surrealism, words, writing
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I just got an email saying that Spawning Ground has been accepted for publication. And for money – I got paid enough for a jar of Hot Chocolate for when autumn comes. Spawning Ground is a 1000 word short story about a … Continue reading
At the start of a shift
Four minutes before my shift starts. I insert the catheter – it stings and the pain lodges somewhere in my gut. The neural net is next – it clamps onto the spineport. It’s second generation and it feels like a … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Prose, Science Fiction
Tagged alien, catheter, gorilla splice, Humour, my day at work, Prose, science fiction, selling hammers, SF, snapshot, Speculative Fiction, trefforest estate, work day
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Graphite Bunny 