The metal plating had a nice polished chrome finish so that when I looked down at its bald cranium, I could see the whole kitchen reflected back at me. The ...
After a short quiz and an eye exam, the chubby middle-aged man in dark green coveralls inspected Hazel’s fuse box. His experienced fingers prodded gently at the nape of her ...
A man returns to a tragic moment in his past, desperately trying to change what happened.
Kevlin Henney writes words and code. He is ...
Vonnegut’s mind at work. Illustration by Rob Fred Parker.
Seeing as it is science month here at Litro, what better time to take a look at one of the most influential, ...
In the year 2035, medical experiments on monkeys have evolved to serve a sinister purpose.
Laura Nelson
Laura Nelson has a doctorate in neuroscience, used to be ...
Cover photograph by Paige Sinkler, an award-winning writer and photographer currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Kingston University. Her fiction and poetry have been published in ...
The old gentleman walking down the street looked the same as ever—distinguished but slightly dishevelled, in a Bohemian style, a slow-walking European on an American main street, sad-faced, purposeful but ...
Bacteria Street Circus scan the detail for spectators blind maestro hear the hoopla when they zoom up and down into and through desk city microbe avenue ashen spheres and pill ...
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Like anyone else I have a few regrets in life. Really, I wish I’d tried harder at piano lessons when I was a kid. I also feel bad about being ...
He brings her to the lab. What does she see? She sees me. She blinks. My timer beeps. She blinks again. I turn, take my test tubes off the rocker. ...
‘David? Are you awake?’ David turned in bed and opened his eyes. Katherine, his wife, stood in the doorway of the bedroom, silhouetted by the light that hung over the ...
He always sits at the head of the table. He sees everyone, and notices them. He smokes neat little roll-ups made with black Rizlas and free trade imported tobacco. He’s ...
I sit in a classroom where I clearly do not belong. On the blackboard, the professor writes a scientific formula that stretches into its third line. What looks like high-end ...
There may have been an intergalactic consensus. A treaty or something, an agreement to leave us alone. Like not experimenting on animals. Or had we been part of an experiment ...
Sam feels the intense heat radiating from the bright light moments before he actually sees the tunnel of light. But once he spots it he’s off to the races. Sam ...
The protagonist leaves a message to himself in an alternative reality, offering advice and a warning.
Nothing, or my own latest novel, however you want to look at it. I don’t read fiction when I’m writing and anyway only have time for New Scientist, ...
The space race had an enormous impact on society, culture and popular imagination.
Eyes on the stars – Space as inspiration
Piers Sellers in conversation with Rona Munro and John Zarnecki.
Starts: 7.00pm ...
