My hometown floods. I swim after some strange fish and find a scientific community where a scaled baby tells me who I am...
I’m showing the Royal Society how to levitate. Confidence is the main thing. I teach a hesitant Fellow to lift off...
Why has no one noticed that the side effects of a household appliance violate all known physics?
After trespassing in a staff-only part of Faerie, I'm cast out. Only I'm cast like a seed, meant to grow a new elf circle...
I meet a girl who's 16 and 61, who tells me dreams are lives, not messages. But then I must fly over a sinister parade...
A musical prodigy has a gorgeous, unplayable keyboard. But serious creativity takes a dull, regular, ergonomic instrument...
I fight to save 50,000 eggs that'll hatch psychics. But my friends want to exterminate them! Am I wrong?
I'm a lab animal who discovers voice software and creates a personal zine, testifying for our rights...
Three dream-reactions to a (real) psychic experiment that went badly awry...
Kekule dreamed solutions to the thorniest structural chemistry problems of his era not once but twice...
My dad has a time machine, so he generously invites the King of Persia over. And offers him MY room...
I find myself in a vault with tables where half-dissected animals writhe. Hidden in each was a human shape...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
Researchers show me weird little objects like shoelaces that drive people mad with fear...
My shamanic teacher lures me into a labyrinth ruled by wizards whose magic-monopoly's about to fall...
I'm starting a project that'll build chromatic instruments easier to learn and play than conventional ones. The Project describes nine interface designs, from staggered keyboards and button-grids to my favorite, the helical Coil. Wanna be in on it?
Recycling used paint to lighten pavements could lower continental temperatures a fraction of a degree...
I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a peaceful breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams...
CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES
Loewi thought nerve impulses were transmitted chemically, not electrically. But he couldn’t prove it, until one night...
Parkinson dreamed his new telephone device got added to an anti-aircraft gun. He told his dream; guns with M9 units turned out to be so accurate it gave the British hope against the Luftwaffe...
A volcano erupts in San Francisco! No human could survive the blast, but one researcher does--what IS he?
I'm a mouse trapped and tortured in a maze/machine who gets killed four different ways at once...
CAUTION: OW, OW, OW, OW
A mermaid friend invites me to see an underwater experiment in the Golden Gate...
CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
A poem linking the dawn of digital art to early, tinny phonographs, cranky film cameras...
CAUTION: IDEAS
Towers, before he was killed, argued Terman was wrong: geniuses are often isolated and maladjusted...
CAUTION: UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS
Alternate Earths, possible futures, and pure experiments in planetology, biology, sociology. Most of them teem with intelligent creatures--alien Edens!
CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, COMMIES, EVOLUTION
I dream of a half-pony half-human girl who can't eat either hamburgers or hay. She figures out an appropriate diet...
I'm working alone in the lab at night, when the lab gear wakes up and tries to kill me...
Calmly, I watch a girl trapped in a lab try to escape, and die; and watch a man lose his head to a hungry thing...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
Howe's sewing-machine design didn't work until, one night, warriors stuck him in a soup-pot, jabbing him with needle-sharp spears...
CAUTION: OUCH!
A baby's own skin secedes, forming a snake. It prepares to eat the skinned baby. Shall I intervene?
A huge rubbery mass of skin complains I made it sick. I get tired of its whining, and...
Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm made nurse to her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
Two child prodigies fail to stop the assassins stalking President Obama, but a geeky guy with a home-made laser...
I careen from a shamanic laboratory to a shattered ring round an alien world to (gasp) an honest politican...
Jung said most people let one aspect of life dominate them. The Mage balances them...
Clarence the sappy angel from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and Milton's Lucifer, noblest Devil of them all, land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're perfect, and the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me, and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full range of feelings. Too bad one is the feeling she's fake...
I walk in a vast graveyard full of history's most famous people. But it's all fake, built as a test...
I dreamt of the Du Pont lab where I'd work, then the hospital where my sister-in-law would need a transfusion, then my of neighbor's coffin...
In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice...
My family home's invaded by ancient Egyptian architects. So I put on my unicorn mask and eavesdrop on their plans...
"I liked the melody a lot, but because I'd dreamed it, I couldn't believe I'd written it..."