A Book Of Small Science Fiction (part one)

A Book Of Small Science Fiction is a little book (50 pages, 15000 words) that contains 181 short (often very short) science fiction stories, scenes, vignettes, ideas, vague thoughts, and occasionally poems, one written every day so far this year (up to June 30th).

I wrote these rather than keeping a diary this year, so there’s no continuity between tales, no structural choices in the placement of the stories. They’re all just presented in the order they were written, day after day after day.

(There’s some slight repetitions here that could probably have been condensed into one, and couple of others that would probably have been better off left on the page of my notebook entirely, but I’ve included all of them as a commitment to the project).

The second part, containing 184 small stories, will be released at the end of the year (if I manage to keep up writing one every day to an acceptable standard (which hopefully i will)).

Downlaod the pdf: A Book Of Small Science Fiction (part one)

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Notes:

1. Written between January 1st and June 30th, 2026
2. One story a day
3. There’ll be a small selection of these small science fictions posted here in a bit
4. But not any of the ones that have weird formatting
5. Because I lack the will of trying to force wordpress to cope with anything beyond standard paragraph breaks and line formatting.

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Radio Static

Radio Static is a small and ultimately pointless internet radio that plays nothing but various forms of static and occasionally some industrial noises that also kind of sound like static. Press play to play, stop to stop, and back and forward to wind through the selection of sounds in playlist order. Contains about 30 selections of static for your listening enjoyment.

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Notes:

1. I made this using TWINE, between September 6th and September 9th, 2024
2. The radio noises and other interference patterns are taken from the bbc sound effect archive
3. You can download the whole thing here if you want to.
4. Or listen to it online here.
5. It is entirely up to you.

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The Coin Toss World Cup

“Come one! Come all! And welcome to the ultimate test of skill… That’s right, live from the Independent Monetary Kingdom of Coinland, it’s time once again for The Coin Toss World Cup! 8 billion players from all around the world! One solitary winner! Who will it be? Who knows! But it could be you! And it has to be someone!”

The Coin Toss World Cup (available here and here) is an exciting game of skill and talent in which YOU could become the number one “heads-or-tailser” in the world! All you have to do is choose (and not lose)!

Please Note: The download version on itch.io also includes a commentary free version, if you want to skip everything but the coin tossing. And also there’s an animation of a £2 coin rotating on a piece of paper I made that I included for some reason.

Please Also Note: If you can’t download them for some reason, you can also play The Coin Toss World Cup here straight away with no extra clicking or anything, and play the commentary free version here, too).

Please Also Finally Note: The save menu (with back buttons too) might be hidden on mobile, so you’ll need to click the arrow in the top left corner to make that appear. Not that I can think of any reason at all why you might want to utilise a back button of all things.

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Notes:

1. The Coin Toss World Cup was made in July 2023
2. Using TWINE
3. I like TWINE
4. Anyway I just wanted to make a sports game without any sports really.
5. So I made this.
6. I’ve always loved the coin tosses they make players do before matches and penalty shootouts and whatever
7. And reading about all those old football matches that were decided by coin tosses
8. And or also elections sometimes too
9. Which always leaves me feeling kind of weird when I think about it.
10. For some reason.
11. Anyway, that £1 coin in the cover image is my favourite £1 coin ever
12. It has a skull on it.
13. “Heads or SKULL?”
14. More coins should have skulls on them.
15. Or even maybe an actual tail one day.

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