Author
David Paul Rogers
David Rogers' writing has appeared in Star*Line, Brain Games (Third Flatiron), and Sky and Telescope magazine. His collection of short stories, Emergency Exits, is now available on Amazon. More at davidrogersbooks.com.
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The Stranger
When Rigel first read of the “discovery,” he keyed in the eye-roll emoji and kept scrolling. The idea that the world was only a simulation had been around for centuries. The notion was at least as old as Plato, who used the fame of his former teacher, Socrates, to promote his…
What We Found on the Way to Alpha Centauri: A Miniature Novel
Chapter One Our ship met four others, one at a time. The first ship held many Centaurians, as we called them, not knowing what they called themselves. Their trajectory pointed straight back to the Centauri System. They looked a lot like us but were shorter on average by half a…