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DOMINANT LIFE FORM    by Charles Marino
Price: $3.95 USD. 51960 words. Published on March 15, 2009. .

Eric Lorenz, ex-scientist, finds himself drawn into a hacker project. Run by an all but unseen eccentric old man, Lorenz deals more and more intimately with office robots instead of fellow humans, and working to constantly improve them. The skills of the small team he joins create results beyond their vision. Beyond their ability to know what will come of it in the race for Dominant Life Form.
Sci Fi Stories - Volume 2    by David Grace
Price: $0.99 USD. 25970 words. Published on September 28, 2009. .

"Bug Rules" takes place aboard a ship crewed by sociopathic insects transporting a cargo of humans. "Chronotron" explores a future where you can buy insurance which will protect you from any physical injury. In "Dream War" two adjacent countries that broadcast dreams heads go to war. "The Heart Is The Hunter" explores a world in which sentient computers can rent human hosts.
#Beach    by Random Human
Price: Free! 2370 words. Published on March 29, 2010. .

AI clones of his personality allow Tristan to keep in constant contact with his friends and fans without the hassle of being aware of their existence. But when one of them messes up, he's finds that it's his own existence that's in question...
Birth    by Mark Carter
Price: $0.99 USD. 6630 words. Published on April 25, 2010. .

We may be the most intelligent species on Earth, but we're unlikely to be the last. What does seem likely, though, is that the next intelligent species will be one created by us. How will that species come to be? How will it develop? How will our interactions with it influence that development and its relationship to us? This anthology of three short stories deals with these questions.
Divergence: PORT101 - Book Two    by Jeremy Parrish
Price: $0.99 USD. 30310 words. Published on May 24, 2010. .

The second book in the P.O.R.T. 101 series, a followup and a look at the true genesis of the experiment. Armed with knowledge of the future, Sonya Riley embarks on a journey which may lead her to a future that she is determined to prevent. Once again drawn into a scientist's obsession, Alex struggles to find a way back to his life in the twenty-first century.
The Human Factor    by Mark Lord
Price: $2.99 USD. 4060 words. Published by Alt Hist Press  on July 17, 2010. .

Apple iBookstore Bestselling Title - consistently in the top 50 titles in Science Fiction for the last six months. If you like I Robot or Blade Runner, then this short story is for you. In a future Earth robots are not supposed to be able to harm humans, robots can still be used by terrorist forces to manipulate humans to destroy themselves.
Renegade Robot    by Tom Lichtenberg
Price: Free! 16970 words. Published on July 31, 2010. .

It's the end of the world as we know it, when the dreaded Singularity finally occurs and happens to be captured, live on tape, by agents of the Frantic News Network, which freaks out, as usual, and causes a lot of trouble for the mild-mannered nanobot exterminator who happens to get caught in the crossfire.
Corporate Responsibility    by Tara Loughead
Price: Free! 640 words. Published by Jekkara Press  on August 4, 2010. .

A very short science fiction story about getting someone to take the top job, when it means that they could literally be for the chop.
No Guts, No Glory    by Richard Alan Dickson
Price: $2.99 USD. 7900 words. Published by Grey Cat Press  on August 21, 2010. .

The brave embrace death. Cowards accept eternal life as cyborgs... brains encased in expensive purpose-built bodies that pilot rockets or run other tasks for their corporate owners. When science finally proves the Afterlife, one former coward races to bring his eternal life to an abrupt end, only to find that neither his corporate masters, nor his programming, will allow it.
Organic    by JC Andrijeski
Price: $0.99 USD. 13010 words. Published by White Sun Press  on October 1, 2010. .

What if in the future your car were made of as many animal parts as machine? What if it became self-aware and less and less enamored of toting you and your family around, getting its seats covered in ice cream and being left in parking lots for hours on end? What if it and some of its friends decided to do something about it? In Organic, meet your car. And be nervous. Very, very nervous.