Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories

A retired software quality control engineer is pressed back into service by the agency that pays his for his room and board to help recover the money that agency the spends on him. He quickly discovers that he has been thrust into an unusual situation, which forces him to make a difficult choice. Program Notes And Credits Narrated by Mitchell Tew Opening and closing music by David H. Written by Alan V Hare

Laura Mackenzie, an energetic late nineteenth century entrepreneur, struggles to introduce a new technology that will shape the next century and realize her dreams. Caught the politics of the day she must a radical choice.         Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David Hume.

Two friends find themselves on opposite sides of a prediction that, if correct will become the opportunity to see a once in a lifetime astronomical event, and if wrong could spell disaster for the world.         Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H. Narrator – Mitchell Tew

On a world only 20 lights from earth a colony of humans have mostly learned to live with the Aliens who arrived on the planet at the same time. But over the course of generations friction has begun to emerge and for Narvon a series of recent accidents are a dark sign.         Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H. Narrator – Mitchell Tew

While investigating an anomaly in the size of the information packets being sent from a commercial project on Mars, Yara an engineer, discovers a hidden signal which turns out to be something unexpected, that forces her into a choice she does not want to make.   Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H. Narrator – Mitchell Tew

Two recent immigrants to a new colony world find it unexpectedly difficult to make ends meet until one of them wins a trip for two to seven exotic worlds. While on the trip they meet an alien who challenges their understanding of history and gives them a special opportunity.   Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

Finola, an unemployed librarian, lands a job with a research institute investigating unexplained phenomena. Unlike her new colleagues she is sceptical about the existence of the supernatural, UFOs, aliens, and parallel realities. Through an odd twist of fate she finds herself rethinking her belief in the physically of world around her.   Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

Sal through, no fault of his own, has been reduced to house sitting for a living. He moves from house to house hiding from his past from his past until one day he receives a mysterious special delivery that appears to present him with undreamed of possibilities. But he is not sure if the package was meant for him or a neighbour or if it is a complex scheme to from someone in his past seeking revenge.   Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

Alana, a gamer from the poor side of town, has worked her way into an elite online guild, which only admits players from wealthy neighbourhoods. When she is accidently discovered and her membership and livelihood are both threatened help comes from a mysterious new friend. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

While on a school field trip to a nuclear research station, in the late 1960’s, Allen is overwhelmed with a sense of déjà vu, and can’t break away from the feeling that he is trapped in a loop of time between 1968 and 2012. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

After graduating college Eveta is unexpectedly called up as a volunteer for community service. She is required to take on the personality of another person and temporarily live among the interred on a distant isolated island. Once there she finds herself stuck between the necessity to keep a monumental secret and the mistake of her predecessor. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

A trip to the coast in search of work ends up at a remote struggling hotel. Built by the passion and obsession of its owner, the hotel may hold a secret worth returning for fifty years later. The problem is that the hotel has burnt down and the fate of it’s owner is unknown. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

Frillo was orphaned at an early age and grew up on the streets of the economic zone. Taken in by an older modder he quickly learned the trade and by 15 was at the pinnacle of the illicit field. Despite the warnings of his mentor Frillo takes on a high profile job that turns out to be his last. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

While on vacation on a holiday moon Cala takes a late night walk and ends up being taken by aliens to a bizarre place, where she is forced to play a very important game of chance. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

Sometimes the way the world is and the systems we toil under, indifferent to our day to day struggles, seem just a little unfair. And no matter how hard we try our ability to change them feels remote at best. In this month’s story, set in an alternate reality, a young farm worker decides to change the agreement with the ancient absent rulers that his village has struggled under for centuries . Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

  We assume we know what has happened in the past through archaeological research, museums, archives, and historical texts. What if we have missed something so fundamental that it would change our understanding of the world? In part two of “The Awakening” Maya discovers that humanity was never alone. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

  Through archaeological research, museums, archives and historical texts, we assume we know what has happened in the past. What if we have missed something so fundamental that it would change our understanding of the world? Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

Adam receives a rather odd package in the mail and when he checks the postmark realizes that it has taken more than half a century for the thing to be delivered to, whom he believes to be, the wrong A. Bruckner. Curiosity finally overcomes Adam and he unwraps the box finding a mysteriously object that transports him into a nostalgic past vision of the future. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

Zebb and Estrella, two young teens from an industrial moon orbiting the second planet in the Barnard’s Star system, accidentally end up together in the same escape pod. On the surface they are from settlements with apposing political systems, but soon discover that they are more a-like than different. Unfortunately their unplanned meeting puts them both in jeopardy. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

During a future world oil shortage a scientist, researching an old idea about the potential energy contained in a vacuum (zero point energy), discovers a cheap simple method of extracting almost limitless power from literally nothing. Realizing how important his discovery is the scientist decides to file a patent application before he publishes his research. On his way to file the patent the scientist is approached by an odd stranger who seems intent on stopping the release of the new technology. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

Catina, the director of online marketing, for an important advertising agency comes up with a revolutionary idea, but forgets what it is before she can write her idea down. Desperate to remember it, she consults numerous experts in various fields, without success. When she is ready to give up, a mysterious consultant approaches her, claiming that he can help her recover the idea. Before she considers the implications of his offer Catina finds herself transported. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

Marco had been top ranked in player verses player one on one in the MMO Crevasse for over a year until a nobody with GM like powers poned him. Everett, the lead designer of Crevasse, lost his job over the negative reaction to his updates in Crevasse II. Mad at the studio that creates the game, Everett leaves an Easter egg in the code for the next release that has some unexpected results during a PVP match between Marco and the player who defeated him. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

In 1977 Zah Helen, an undercover operative, receives a new high profile assignment to interfere with the human search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), so the efforts at one particular radio telescope will not spot a radio signal that has been accidentally sent toward the earth. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

An accident forces the crew of the interstellar ship Destiny to go in to hibernation while the robotic maintenance systems diagnose and fix the problems. During the emergency crucial instructions are lost causing the ship to go into orbit around around a star for 50 thousand years. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music by David H.

During a period of intense solar flare activity Marianne and her family take a holiday at a remove wilderness cabin. This brings them close to a place called, the top of the sky, that some people think has mystical significance. What Marianne and her parents don’t realize, is that the top of the sky is also the destination for a group of aliens who live in the corona of the sun. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

In an attempt to regain its reputation as a leader in space research and exploration, the ancient Institute of Solar Studies in Babylon puts all its resources into a mission to the newly discovered comet Hale Bopp to study the object’s unusual behaviour. The mission is a success but the outcome is not what Fath Shah, the institute’s director, had planned on. Program Notes And Credits Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

In 1884 a school master named Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote the novella “Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions.” The book explored what it would be like to live in a two dimensional universe, and speculated that there might be other dimensions. The Abott’s story lay in obscurity until it was rediscovered in the early 20th century after Einstein wrote “The Theory of General Relativity” which discussed the possibility of a fourth dimension. Since then several films and animations have been made based on Abbott’s novella. This month’s story revisits Abbott’s flat universe from the point of view of a down and out private detective in search of his first big case.

History is littered with discarded technologies and obsolete skills. In the last few decades whole industries have been swept away by ever moving waves of change, and it seems unavoidable that today’s high tech is destined to become tomorrow’s landfill or does it? In our story this month new meets old, makes friends and finds something valuable in the obsolescence of the recent past. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

This month’s story is very loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen short tale The Emperor’s New Clothes. Amber is working as a stage director for the opening celebration of the project of century when her implanted communications chip starts to malfunction affecting her perception of reality. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

This month’s story is based on a comment Steven Hawkins once made: We should probably not try to contact extraterrestrial civilizations. According to Hawkins, our own history has shown that contact between two cultures does not always go well for the people whose land is being visited. The last two scientists on a distant planet try to reverse the damage done to their culture by a group of suspect Aliens. The scientists eventually succeed but not through the actions they had intended to use.

  After narrowly evading capture, Maya and Tim arrive in New Hudson and run into the man who had been following them in Waystation. The man claims he works with Maya’s parents, but neither Tim nor Maya trusts him. As the man drives them to Hudson Beach, in theory, to meet Maya’s parents, Maya receives a text message warning them to be careful and advising her and Tim to try and escape. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

Alonzo is forced to take his ailing, wealthy mother and her robotic wheel chair to an ultra expensive all inclusive health spa. The doctors and specialists told him that the legendary algae baths, unique to the exclusive beach resort of Vida Del Mar, are his mother’s best chance for recovery. Alonzo believes that the treatment is a hoax and sets out to prove it, but accidentally finds out the algae can do a lot more than heal ill people.

Aura lives with her mother and brothers, making a modest living from a concession stand. Her life in the themed dome park Timber World is thrown into chaos when an unexpected event forces her to leave to save her family’s livelihood. In the process, Aura discovers a secret that must be kept from her family and friends. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

  After discovering more incriminating evidence against them planted on the café’s computer, Maya and Tim decide to flee when net regulatory agents appear. In an attempt to find Maya’s parents, they take the train to New Hudson Beach. Along the way, they are helped by the odd bag lady’s secret organization, but neither Tim nor Maya knows who, other than the authorities, is chasing them or why they have been framed as criminals. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

With the first Moon landings in the late 1960s, many may have felt that a Mars mission was not too far off, but since then, no human has left near Earth orbit. On the 200th anniversary of the first moon landing, an international mission is poised to be the first human presence on Mars, but events are more complex than they seem. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

  Maya and Tim live in a future powered by coal, kids over eight must work for a living, and reality is not what it seems. Tim’s parents died after a random traffic accident, leaving him alone and in debt for the medical expenses. Unable to pay, his liabilities were auctioned off to a family who owns a café, where he now has to work until their daughter, Maya, finishes college. When two mysterious customers from Europa Café show up in the lobby of the building that hides Anneita’s secret archive, she forces Tim and Maya to leave. While on their way back to the café, Maya feels that they are being followed. When they arrive at the Europa, they find it closed and Maya’s mother missing. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

  An astronomer watching for near-earth objects makes a shocking discovery that forces Adrian out of hiding. Adrian realizes that events in the past have led to a disaster in the present. He is forced to intervene and change history, but the results are not entirely what he had planned. This episode revisits the original series from year one. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

An automated planetary mission goes awry when it is hit by solar flares. Unit C-11, one of the landing group’s communication nodes, attempts to repair its damaged memory with information erroneously downloaded from the mission’s orbiter. Once assimilated, the information along with a comment from one of the mission control hubs, convinces the tiny robot that it is a knight-errant on an important quest. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

  Lambent Nape Nor works at the Infinite Macro Cosmic Reality Corporation as the assistant head of product design and customer services for Universe 8. Despite Lambent’s concerns, management insists on a last-minute change to an already rushed update. It quickly becomes evident that the change does more than they had intended. The week’s story is based on the idea proposed by physicist David Bohm that the Universe might be similar to a holographic projection. We have been discussing recent news headlines that graphically point out how things don’t always go as planned. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

  Maya and Tim live in a future powered by coal, and kids over eight must work for a living, but reality is not what it seems. Tim’s parents died after a random traffic accident, leaving him alone and in debt for the medical expenses. Unable to pay, his liabilities were auctioned off to a family who owns a café, where he now has to work until their daughter, Maya, finishes college. After receiving an unexpected message warning him to check the server logs at the café, Tim and Maya go to meet the mysterious sender, who initially appears to be a bag lady but is, in fact, from an old, eccentric, wealthy Way Station family. She takes Tim and Maya to the disused top floor of the Ashton Towers, where she reveals her involvement in a hundred-year-old society trying to understand the actions of an elusive and dangerous group that has been changing history. Tim’s gopher server project has inadvertently brought him, Maya, and the café under the scrutiny of this organization, and the Europa café’s future may be threatened as a result. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

  An imminent invasion derails a 500-year-old terraforming project. No one, except a small group of scientists, understands the threat’s true nature and its implications for the future of their civilization. This story evolved out of a discussion on James Lovelock‘s Gaia hypothesis that the earth is a single complex organism, the recent announcement of the creation of a synthetic genome, and a story that appeared about the possibility of life on Titan, based on an entirely different chemistry than our own. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

After being sucked into a wormhole created when Luki used Len’s unfinished hyper dry modification to the ship’s clothes dryer, the crew of the Hyper Nova are stranded on a strange planet called Atma, which is being smothered in the lost laundry, the local inhabitants, who are ungulate-like creatures with three legs, believe that the Hyper Nova was sent from the great sky herd in answer to their pleas to stop the downpour of unwanted hoof warmers. Opick, the herd leader, is convinced that Luke could not possibly be the sky alpha they have been waiting for, and he holds him captive. Len, Zara, and ADA are then forced to improvise ways to negotiate a solution. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects: Mars: The Planets Suite licensed from Premiumbeat. Sound FX and background textures from SoundSnap.

  This month, we present two short stories. In the first one, Perspectives, a routine mission is suddenly changed by a chance encounter in deep space. This story evolved out of one of David’s writing assignments at school. In our second story, entitled, The Mission, the leader of a multi-generally space craft reports their research findings after nearly 50 years of silence. This story grew out a conversion around Steven Hawking’s comments on the possibility of Alien Life, made at NASA’s the 50th anniversary. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

  A heavy rain storm breaks Way Station’s heat wave, but along with the storm, two strange customers appear at the Europa Café. They appear to know more than they should, which spooks Maya. After hearing about them, Tim tells Maya about some other odd happenings and is spooked by an unexpected message. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

  A passing celestial being is trapped by Earth’s gravity and reluctantly dragged to its surface in the middle of a Moscow winter. Stranded in the body of a dog, the alien being is forced to intervene in the early Russian Space program to get a ride home. The story is loosely based on the Sputnik 2 mission, which carried a dog named Laika into space on November 3, 1957. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

  Life on board the Hyper Nova begins to settle down into a routine until a series of random events collide with one of Len’s pet projects, causing the ship and its crew to get sucked into a hole in space. As they start repairs, Luki encounters the angry local inhabitants of a strange alien world.   Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects: Mars: The Planets Suite licensed from Premiumbeat. Sound FX and background textures from SoundSnap.

  Time can seem to slow down when there is nothing to do, and this was particularly true for Abeo who had been forced to endure a summer without her friends on a lonely research station. Her father and the other adults were too distracted by some unusual observations to pay attention to Abeo. One day she finds a mysterious friend her own age in a field, and her summer begins to pass quickly, but the visits of her new companion have unexpected consequences. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

  Maya and Tim work at the Europa Cafe in Way Station, a place in the past where things are run by steam, trains are the main means of transportation, and adults don’t seem to remember what really happened in the past. One night, Tim discovers someone has been breaking into one of his personal online projects. Thus begins an adventure that takes them both into a hidden world of intrigue. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

  Sometimes you can love something just a little too much. Under the influence of a mysterious dream, Marco discovers that he can’t stop eating candy and begins to grow to alarming proportions. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects, opening and closing music from Premiumbeat. Episode album cover image from Fotolia.

  Luki is given his first true command of a starship and immediately plunged into a major mission. With the help of his less-than-loyal crew, he completes the assignment but inadvertently creates a new potential problem. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects: Mars: The Planets Suite licensed from Premiumbeat. Sound FX and background textures from SoundSnap.