The Auctioneer and the Engineer
So here's how my night started, and I'll tell it straight because there's no point lying to you people.
Space station sci-fi & fantasy stories
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged space station, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 23 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: Coral Works, Shift of Ivory and Glass Ritual. Readers usually start with “The Auctioneer and the Engineer” and “Spite Trip”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Space station sci-fi & fantasy stories, ranked by readers
01 02 Spite Trip
The galley smells like burnt rehydrated coffee and someone else's feet.
03 Orbital Bid
Amelie had watched a lot of people win things.
04 Air Debt
The beeping came at 0340 station time, which Irma Byrne had learned over eleven years on Meridian-7 was the hour the station liked to…
05 Echo Bloom
The escape pod was not built for two.
06 The Venus Return
I was wiping the same glass for the third time when the docking tube coughed open and let the new arrivals in.
07 The Lawyer and the Pilot
Samson Wilkinson boarded the Hauler on a Tuesday, if you could call any day a Tuesday out past Mars.
08 The Mortar & The Fall
They put us in a closet.
09 The Cartographer of Borrowed Tides
Nadia Voss was twenty-eight years old, and her job was stealing memories out of the heads of things that could eat her.
10 Permanent Docking
I woke up with an arm across my ribs that wasn't mine.
11 Spite Date Zero
Lyla Metcalf was forty-two years old and she had been drinking bad coffee out of the same dented thermos lid for eleven years, and she…
12 Gravity Well
The argument started the way most of their arguments started, over a schedule nobody had agreed to.
13 Docking Bay Confessions
The coffee pot on burner three has been there so long it's basically a fossil.
14 The Glass Wife
Gayle Paulson is forty-three years old, and she has been married long enough to know the difference between a man talking and a man…
15 The Cartographer's Debt
My name is Andi Reyes, I'm twenty-nine years old, and until three days ago my life was so boring it actually hummed.
16 The Resonance of Last Light
I've been a memory archivist on Cerule Station for six years now.
17 Singularity Drift
I saw Nico four years before I ever touched him.
18 The Signal Key
The shuttle from the surface took eleven hours and I slept through nine of them, which I counted as a personal victory.
19 Debt of Light
I was fifty-two years old, thirty years in the Helios Fleet behind me, and I was floating in an airlock outside a temple, waiting for my…