Tag: Sci-Fi
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Short Story – “Icarus-Nine” [Conclusion]
Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this story can be found at: Salvar Station’s upper security bay was split into two sections: from the entrance a long central gantry led to the skiff docks, arrayed around the gantry on spinning mountings. Every hundred paces, long supporting walkways spidered out to the station’s inner walls in…
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Short Story – “Icarus-Nine” [Part 3]
[Part One available at: https://scrubreport.com/2026/07/12/short-story-icarus-nine-part-1/] [Part Two available at: https://scrubreport.com/2026/07/30/short-story-icarus-nine-part-two/] “Spectra Vestal,” Granté echoed. “Holy shit.” Hiss made a savage grinding noise that probably stood in for an expletive. Lady Spectra snickered. “Pleased to meet you, too.” Granté’s head swam. “What are we doing, Cap?” Paola blinked. “Uh.” Whatever it is, make it soon, Hiss…
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Short Story – “Icarus-Nine” [Part 2]
[Part One available at: https://scrubreport.com/2026/07/12/short-story-icarus-nine-part-1/] Stationmaster Polk steepled his chrome-plated fingers. “The way you say that would make me suspicious, if I didn’t know how much of a nervous wreck your ship is.” “Oh, right,” Paola smiled disarmingly. “You’ve met before.” “Really, though…what’s with the light haul?” Polk’s eyes were dark wet slits in split…
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Short Story – “Icarus-Nine” [Part 1]
The Pequod limped through the void, thrusters firing intermittently like a baby hiccupping blue flame into the dark. The crew, clustered on the bridge, winced in unison with every burp of fuel and tried to distract themselves with the news. The ICOMM newsfeed was cluttered with talk about a girl from House Vestal gone walkabout…
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Short Story: “One Last Catch”
Crab season had been over for eight solar days, but the Pequod cracked the asteroid anyway. The thing was sitting right there, all fat and juicy and full of karkinoi, and a catch was a catch. The Pequod’s take had been lousy the back half of the season, and the only cargo kicking around the…
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Review/Ranking: Secret Level, Eps. 9-15
I guess they front-loaded all the good stuff, huh? This series was like a five-course meal that goes from fresh oysters to a turd wrapped in old newspaper. Gross. B Tier The Outer Worlds: The Company We Keep This episode was pretty good. I enjoyed The Outer Worlds when I played it (even if I…
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Review/Rankings: Secret Level, Eps. 1-8
Secret Level is an animated anthology series exploring a selection of current and classic gaming franchises. I broke the episodes into three tiers – A, B, and C – and listed them within those tiers in approximate order of preference. The fact that there are only three tiers is indicative of what I thought of…
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Review Catch-Up
I probably should have written reviews of all of these when they were a bit fresher, but shit happens. Let’s do this. Spoiler warning in effect. House of the Dragon (Season 2) (HBO) Great acting and good pyrotechnics can’t save a season that feels like it’s swimming (flying?) in circles. The “Blood and Cheese” scene…
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Quick Thoughts: The Demise of the Halo TV Show
Oh, Master Cheeks, we barely knew ye. The Halo TV show has been cancelled by Paramount after two seasons (although I’ve seen articles saying that the studio intends to shop the show around to other networks). I know that I and pretty much everybody else on the internet were lining up to take steaming dumps…