Queen Mab Courtesy, by Bruce C. Davis

Colorful illustration of a row of skulls changing into a smiling man's face, a giant hand pressing a fly onto a sleeping head above a mountain city skyline

Originally published in Planet Magazine No. 19 (September 1998). Illustration by Romeo Esparrago It was the pigeons that awakened me. There was a flock of them just outside the basement window that I had crawled in through the night before. They scattered with a thundering of wings as the C.O.P.S. started their first sweep. I … Continue reading Queen Mab Courtesy, by Bruce C. Davis →

Search and Rescue, by Bruce Davis

Computer render of an astronaut on a tether working on a large cylindrical spacecraft with solar panels against black space

Originally published in Planet Magazine No. 18 (June 1998). Illustration by Duncan Long The call came in about an hour into the midwatch. We hadn't had much action that tour -- just one or two missions, and those were walkovers. We were getting kind of stir-crazy by then, two months into what looked to be … Continue reading Search and Rescue, by Bruce Davis →