Each week, Nature publishes a science fiction story in their "Futures" column. At the beginning of the year, they challenged readers to write a science fiction story in no more than 200 characters. Here is the winning entry, as well as some of my favorite submissions.
WINNER:
I pass your empty chair every day. Across the room sits the computer, your voice, your face locked inside. I ache to bring you to life, but fear keeps me in my chair. What if you say no?
--Catherine Rastovsk
Favorites:
off that switch, Professor! Your time machine can't travel back in time past the moment of its own creation and instead will trap the Universe in an endlessly recursive time-like loop! Take your hands
--Judith Reeves-Stevens
We gather, receiving the voice of a deserted explorer. "I have found the lunar colony," she says across the void. "Their logs simply state, 'We die alone'." Eyes downcast, we hear the broadcast end.
--Alasdair MacLeod
As robots perform the laboratory work, it is cheaper just to electronically stimulate the areas of the student's brain associated with frustration and failure, and then, after 3 years, call them doctor.
--Gavin Garland
To see the full list, visit: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v508/n7494/full/508144a.html
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