Short stories tagged with Discovery
Listing 19 stories.
A Jesuit biologist and his team work to uncover the mysteries of a planet in the hope that it can be inhabitable for humans. But as he interacts with the native inhabitants, he realizes he has a decision to make: protect the planet or let those on Earth use it for their own selfish needs.
A father-son duo of physicists set out to explore the mysteries of time travel, but when they manage to bring something back from the prehistoric past, they find that their discovery is far beyond what they expected.
A Basque woman tells a moving story of a found family with three daughters, born in unconventional circumstances.
In outer space, cat-like alien outwits its human captors until its own plan backfires.
In seventeenth-century Delft, a fanatically curious fabric merchant invents the microscope. Even as he neglects and abuses his family, he discovers a new world of life.
A journalist interviews a filmmaker at three different points in human history–2018, 2027, and 2039–to chart the discovery, retrieval, and visualization of a mysterious book found on Mars.
A musician and his friend search for the missing final verse of a popular song, but in doing so encounter the sinister ghost family behind the origin of the tale.
A young alien scientist joins forces with other archaeologists to uncover the secrets of a race that died out many years ago.
A spaceship captain risks his life and crew when he travels to a black hole to retrieve a missing senator and his own long-lost family.
After it is announced that an apocalyptic event that will destroy all life in the universe, an astrophysicist and her gardener mother meet in near-future England to decide how to spend the last months of life.