Science Fiction Stories

A spaceship orbiting a planet - Illustration for science fiction stories collection

I’ve loved science fiction stories ever since I got my first library card. When I was eight, I read Have Space Suit — Will Travel by Robert Heinlein. A high school kid wins a used spacesuit in a contest and ends up being taken on a real trip through space. Not only that, he becomes more than just some smart kid – he becomes a hero. I had read stories with kid heroes before, but those were mostly fantasy, worlds of magic and wizards and other impossible things. This story felt like something that could really happen. If I studied hard enough, maybe someday I could be the one up there exploring the universe.

While I also write fantasy and horror, science fiction stories are my favorite thing to write. Even the most wild, out there stories can have a visible impact on the real world. Writers come up with a gadget to feature in a story, and that story inspires someone to become an engineer or inventor and make it a reality. Science fiction can create a brighter future, and warn us of future paths to avoid.

Whether you’re an inventor or not, I hope these stories will inspire you, move you, and change your world.

Science Fiction Stories:

  • Realitease Stories:
    • Ezra’s Respawn – Ezra can’t seem to remember how long he’s been inside this VR game. When his brother won’t even tell him what day it is, he begins to suspect that something is very wrong.
    • Kevin’s Forever Kingdom – A gamer tracks down a hacker, hoping to abandon the real world and live in his favorite VR game forever.
    • Character Select – A man tries to convince his girlfriend that reality is just a simulation, sending her on a journey of self-discovery.
    • Dreams of Lost Things – In this post-apocalyptic story, a group of teens heads to the city ruins to search for food. They find a world that perished not with a bang, but a yawn.
  • Ron’s Fourth Leg – A man volunteers to help test a new medical treatment where he will be injected with flatworm DNA. Will the benefits be worth the side effects?
  • The Memory Machine – A man learns to let go of a lost love, with the help of an alien vending machine.
  • Accident on Asteroid Alpha-88 – An insurance investigator heads to an asteroid mine to look into an accident claim. What he finds is far more dangerous than he thought.
  • The Horsehead Oasis – A man searches for his estranged mother at a casino in the Horsehead Nebula. When he runs into trouble, he finds a dangerous way to pay off his debts.
  • Error: Personality Not Found – A science fiction story that is about to become reality. A woman discovers that her new boyfriend’s charming personality disappears when the Wi-Fi goes out.
  • The Glyph Dealer – A college student pays a visit to the local glyph dealer, hoping his mind-altering drawings can stop her from thinking and give her a worry-free weekend.
  • The Night Hunter – Epsilon IV was supposed to be humanity’s new home. It had oxygen, water, decent gravity… and giant spiders.
  • The Window Woman – A man becomes obsessed with a woman he always sees on his walk to work, but quickly regrets it.
  • Stranded on Europa – In this space travel science story, a man wins a mind transfer vacation, but his trip home doesn’t turn out like he planned. Can he ever get back to Earth?
  • The Hole in the Wall – A young boy discovers a hole in the wall of his new bedroom, and something watching from the other side. Could it be a new friend?
  • Happy Forever – A programmer with depression discovers that hacking your own brain is a bad idea, no matter how happy it makes you.
  • The Squeaky of Doom – I wrote this space adventure story as a birthday present for my dog Roscoe. With his permission, I’ve decided to share it with you all. It’s about my real pets, and their slightly less real mission to protect humanity from alien deliverymen and other galactic threats. I hope you enjoy it as much as he did.
  • Dream Small – A lab assistant attempts to help his boss with a shrink ray. But why is she experimenting on herself?
  • The Drive-Invasion – When you see space aliens at the drive-in, they’re usually part of the movie. But not tonight.
  • Molly 2.0 – A college engineering professor has a surprising conversation with his girlfriend, a female android.
  • The Drift – A scientist in the 1940s takes a journey in a time machine, but a malfunction leaves him stranded in space. Can he find a safe way back home?
  • The Hypothetical Woman – A man is disturbed by his shapeshifting home and visions of a ghostly woman. Could another world be intruding on this one?
  • The Duel – In this steampunk story, an Old West pickpocket challenges a retired Civil War soldier to a duel. Can the thief beat the cyborg, or is this certain death?
  • Wormholes and Other Dangerous DIY Projects – Physicists attempt to recreate their professor’s last project, the project he was working on when he disappeared.
  • A Kind of Magnet – Dustin’s new neighbor is building a kind of magnet – but what was he trying to attract? And why were government agents at his house?
  • Art and Artifice – Life is just a roll of the dice, but sometimes, the dice are rigged.
  • Frozen – Winter, late at night. She was under the streetlight, smiling up at the falling snow. A short science fantasy story about eternal love and suspended animation.
  • Invasion of the Borings – A little boy discovers his teddy bear has been abducted by aliens, and sets out to rescue him. A short science fiction story about growing up.
  • The Last Thing You Can Lose – An invisible thief loses his most valuable possession: his own body.
  • Regrets and Reminiscence – Why wait for time machines to be invented when you can just rob a time traveler?
  • I, Scavenger – A medical student finds a disturbing way to cover his tuition bills.
  • Silk – An astronaut crashes on a strange planet that seems to be entirely populated by children.
  • Southern Fried Squid – A short steampunk science fiction story about the Civil War, a naval battle, and giant monsters. Can a giant squid beat the infamous ironclads?
  • Roscoe and the Anti-Television – A puppy defends the Earth from an unusual alien invasion. I enjoyed writing this story so much, when I got my first dog, I named him after the main character. I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.
  • Sudo Shutdown Everything – A programmer explains how he accidentally killed god and caused the apocalypse.
  • Electric Meat – A woman discovers a way to have all the fun of killing her husband without the legal troubles: murdering his clone.
  • Arthur’s Rewind – A man discovers the unusual ability to send his own mind back in time, back to an earlier point in his own life. But once you’ve lived every possible version of your life, what else is there to do?
  • Latest Science Fiction Stories – Brows my most recent sci-fi tales here.
  • Have questions about science fiction? Want to learn more about sci-fi tropes, history, and subgenres? Check out my Science Fiction FAQ page!

If you enjoyed these science fiction stories, be sure to check out my collection of science fiction stories, The Doom Tapes. For more free reading, check out my horror stories , fantasy stories, and my flash fiction collection.

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