Plan 559 from Outer Space

Science fiction. (Oh, I desperately want the next two words to be 'Double Feature,' but no...) The term sci-fi was coined by Famous Monsters magazine publisher Forrest J. Ackerman (lovingly remembered as 'The Ackermonster,') to go along with the new term for musical equipment, referred to as 'hi-fi,' but in reality science fiction goes back a long way, to the days of Georg Melies, H.G. Wells and others. And now comes our little offering. There's a variety of themes represented here; an...
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Science fiction. (Oh, I desperately want the next two words to be 'Double Feature,' but no...) The term sci-fi was coined by Famous Monsters magazine publisher Forrest J. Ackerman (lovingly remembered as 'The Ackermonster,') to go along with the new term for musical equipment, referred to as 'hi-fi,' but in reality science fiction goes back a long way, to the days of Georg Melies, H.G. Wells and others. And now comes our little offering. There's a variety of themes represented here; an encounter with a cybernetically enhanced human (a cyborg), a boy who just wants to leave the farm and go to the big city - that is, he's tired of the little moon he's lived on his entire life and wants to see the rest of the universe - time travel, alien invasion, all the usual. But these are stories from our perspective, from our point of view. Please enjoy them. This is the latest in a series of short story anthologies from Five59.com which includes the annual 13 BITES horror collection, SUMMER DREAMS and WINTER TALES, and they keep coming every four months or so. Visit us at Facebook.com/Five59 for information on how to submit your short stories.