Written by Albert Wang from Washington, USA The alarm rings again. Lights flicker on. The station comes to life. Another shining star in a sea of night. The man crawls out of the hard, circular cubicles they use for rest and gets to work. Hundreds of them, shoved in a station far from any natural soil, throw themselves out of the relative safety of the station and into the cold, unforgiving void of space. With saws and lasers and bolt cutters, the engineers toil away, cuttin
Written by from Liu Yiduo  In 4040 AD, the Gengchen year of the Chinese lunar calendar, the Flying Dragon soared in the heavens. Silicon-based alien warships tore through the atmosphere, unleashing biochemical capsules carrying corrosive agents—all intercepted by the "Dongfeng" Type 1 nanometer nuclear bombs. Yet acid rain continued to gnaw at our world. Once-crystal-blue oceans churned with murky foam; lush forests withered into charred wastelands. The blue planet that once
