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No Time Like The Present    by Steve Nubie
Price: $2.99 USD. 121010 words. Published on October 20, 2009. .

In 500 years time travel will be possible. The technology will exist and travel into the future described by Stephen Hawking will occur. It’s a perfect escape from a troubled past or a disappointing present. It’s a place where miraculous cures and advanced technology create a life of ease and leisure - unless of course everybody decides to go.
Stolen Worlds    by Thomas Stone
Price: $2.99 USD. 83120 words. Published by Cooper's Press on March 29, 2010. .

In the second book of the trilogy, Harry Irons, Galactic Survey Mission Commander for the Braithwaite Corporation, stumbles upon a mission to recover an new and powerful energy source on a newly discovered planet thousands of light-years from Earth. The expedition is filled with peril as the team races against time and an assortment of foes both alien and human.
Digital Dystopia    by Jose Fernandez
Price: $4.99 USD. 16070 words. Published on May 18, 2010. .

What will happen when technology allows us to upload our minds into computers? Imagine a world created by you, your surroundings, the people that you interact with, the amount of time that you decide to live; free of disease, violence, disasters, anxiety, of death. Try to imagine that all you have ever wanted to do will be possible within the next few decades...
Pitus Peston And The Gods Of Oman    by Everett Hunt
Price: Free! 150370 words. Published on June 19, 2010. .

poor farmer's son + ancient wampum belt = the world's first astronaut.pitus peston has little going for him but serfdom under his elder brother. a linguistic genius, self-taught in 9 languages, pitus follows clues to trans-galactic travelers exiled to earth centuries ago. learning the alien tongue, peston enters their world transforming into a man of our future. from here the real journey begins.
Time, emiT, and Time Again    by Teel McClanahan
Price: $3.99 USD. 61390 words. Published by Modern Evil Press  on June 30, 2010. .

Hard science fiction written to stimulate your mind without forgetting you have a heart. - In this collection of short stories and essays, each piece begins with an idea about time & an idea about love, then follow to see where they lead. Frozen time, time that flows back & forth, time modified by relativity, unrequited love, unexpected love, unconditional love, buying time, lost time & lost love.
Oracular Offspring (a story from Time, emiT, and Time Again)    by Teel McClanahan
Price: $1.99 USD. 9840 words. Published by Modern Evil Press  on July 7, 2010. .

In a future where processing speeds allow computers to predict the future & advancements in genetic engineering allow people to design custom children, what happens when these technologies - & a couple who haven't kept pace with post-singularity technologies - are combined to try to create a family? In this single short story, Harold and Anne must decide just what future they want for their child.
Mind War; The Singularity    by Joseph DiBella
Price: $2.99 USD. 107720 words. Published on July 20, 2010. .

A band of renegade scientists is so desperate to save the United States after it has been conquered in a devastating Chinese invasion that they decide to build the real ultimate weapon; a supercomputer based on the architecture of the human brain that will keep getting smarter on an exponential basis, making it supremely powerful but impossible to control.
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.
RAY KURZWEIL ON HUMAN LIFE EXTENSION: AN INTRODUCTION    by Paul Budding
Price: $10.00 USD. 3260 words. Published on August 28, 2010. .

Ray Kurzweil studies scientific technological trends in order to assess future technological developments. He points out that technological progress is accelerating. The most momentous aspect of this growth will equate to the progress made in vanquishing disease and ultimately death. The conclusion to this paper discusses whether the Singularity amounts to progressive science or Utopian society.
A Better Loving World    by Anthony Omen
Price: Free! 7550 words. Published on September 30, 2010. .

Based on "After the Singularity" by Mike Deering, "A Better Loving World" is an attempt to "play in the sandbox" that Mike created. "A Better Loving World" takes the concepts Mike invented and spins them in a new way, offering an alternative take on his wonderful story.