Monthly Archives: June 2011

Gladiator Girl: An Alternate Reality Action-Sports Love Story by R. H. Watson

Welcome to a reality in which young women compete to the death in blood sports.  But these deaths are not the end.  Genetic engineering allows women unlimited rebirths until the age of 25.   It takes a mere two weeks in an artificial womb to be reborn as an adult with all the memories and experience from the previous life. Lucy… (more…)

Matchmakers 2.0 by Debora Geary

Mick was hired at online dating site Matchmakers 2.0 on the basis of her graduate thesis in mate selection.  Clients don’t need to know that it was actually on mate selection in guppies.  For $99 the site promises “web 2.0 algorithms plus personal touch.”  Mick and her two department coworkers, Derrick and Miri, are the personal touch.  If the computer… (more…)