The Chosen Duration
The process was discovered in 2041 and immediately subjected to the most rigorous ethical review in scientific history, not because it was dangerous but because it was singular.
Stories tagged “dystopia”
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The Waking Age
The pill was called Vigilance. It had been available over the counter for eleven years, which was long enough for the world to have forgotten what sleeping felt like.
The Veritas Directive
The outbreak was first classified as a neurological event. Later it was reclassified as a public health emergency.
So It Goes Again
Billy Pilgrim's grandson — also named Billy, because the Pilgrims were not an imaginative family — became unstuck in time on a Wednesday in March.
Receipt of Purchase
The dream had a receipt. Ed Moran found it on his nightstand every morning — a small slip of thermal paper, the kind that fades in sunlight, printed with a transaction summary.
Terms of Service
Kira found out Nakamura-Shenzen owned the planet the way most people found out things on Voss-7: through a software update.