Thoughtcrime Experiments
Subtitle: Nine Stories
Author: Onspaugh, Mark; Mohanraj, Mary Anne; Wilson, Alex; Highsmith, William; Willett, Andrew; Ramsey, Sherry D.; Arkenberg, Therese; Liu, Ken; Lanham, Carole
Editor: Harihareswara, Sumana; Richardson, Leonard; Ptah, Erin; Kelmer, David; Hague, Brittany; Scheff, Marc
Copyright: CC BY-NC-SA
Source: unglue.it
Thoughtcrime Experiments is a free 2009 anthology of fantasy and science
fiction stories and art, published under a Creative Commons license. It’s
available online as HTML, as a downloadable PDF, or as a print-on-demand
physical book (coming soon).
(preface)
Our aim was to find mind-breakingly good science fiction/fantasy stories that
other editors had rejected, and release them into the commons for readers to
enjoy. My co-editor Leonard writes extensively on our methodology and aims in
Appendix A, but the short version is: we did it. Here it is.
(introduction)
Contents
- Gaia’s Strange Seedlike Brood (Homage to Lynn Margulis) — art by Patrick Farley
- Introduction by Sumana Harihareswara
- Pirate vs. Alien — art by Erin Ptah
- Welcome to the Federation — story by Mark Onspaugh
- Jump Space — story by Mary Anne Mohanraj
- The Last Christmas of Mrs. Claus — story by Alex Wilson
- Times Square — art by David Kelmer
- Qubit Slip — story by William Highsmith
- Daisy — story by Andrew Willett
- The Ambassador’s Staff — story by Sherry D. Ramsey
- Bio Break — art by Brittany Hague
- Goldenseed — story by Therese Arkenberg
- Single-Bit Error — story by Ken Liu
- Friar Garden, Mister Samuel, and the Jilly Jally Butter Mints — story by Carole Lanham
- Robot v. Ninjas — art by Marc Scheff
- Appendix A: How to Do This and Why by Leonard Richardson
- Appendix B: Sample Contract