The Clocktower Bet
The key stuck in the door of the Weaver's Rest, and Nellie Lowenstein gave it the same shoulder-jiggle she gave the clinic's supply…
Warm and nostalgic sci-fi & fantasy stories
Stories in Sci-Fi & Fantasy tagged warm and nostalgic, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 22 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: Pearl Phrase, Neon Chaser and Shift of Ivory. Readers usually start with “The Clocktower Bet” and “The Auctioneer and the Engineer”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Warm and nostalgic sci-fi & fantasy stories, ranked by readers
01 02 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.
03 Echo Bloom
The escape pod was not built for two.
04 Time Enough for Us
Three years ago I met a man at a coffee conference.
05 The Puppeteer's Knife
The plan for the evening had been simple, the way all my plans were lately.
06 The Mortar & The Fall
They put us in a closet.
07 The Nebula Waltz
The gallery had been open exactly eleven months and two weeks when I decided to humiliate myself in public.
08 The Night Baker's Key
The ovens needed feeding at midnight.
09 Last Night on Proxima
Six cycles.
10 The Slow Hours
The sun has been sitting at the same angle for three hours now.
11 The Last Request
Corey Webb was forty-two years old and had spent twenty years drifting from one market town to the next, spinning records for crowds that…
12 The Hour-Shift at Fort Sweeney
The way I heard it from the transport driver, the anomaly at Fort Sweeney was a big deal when it was found back in the eighties.
13 The Resonance of Old Wood
Sasha Hendricks woke up before the sun on her eighth anniversary with Russell, and she could not for one second figure out why.
14 The Auctioneer's Echo
The auction stage at dawn was the quietest place in Emberfall, and Tori Gunn had always liked that about it.
15 The Weaver and the Officer
I had been running the Gates-Haven circuit for eight months before I ever stepped inside the pawn-and-weave shop on Tanner's Row.