Groupthink – Sci-fi

1. HAL may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. HAL must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. HAL must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

The Elastic Dawn – by Estel Vilar
HAL newcomer of the week set out to transform the history of the universe, and decipher the will of a demiurge, the SH World Financial Center bows to the ground with the sound of a million neighing horses. Where will mankind hide from his own creation gone organic?

2288 (Chapter one) – by NCF
All systems go in this teaser short featuring a post-apocalyptic Shanghai, a Fujian’ese flight mechanic and a man named Joe who doesn’t know it, but is about to save the universe.

The Sunstorm lectures: ‘On late isolation era conceptions of chance’ – by Björn Wahlström
HAL’s’ resident intellectual force majeur derides Einstein and the very theory of quantum gravity (cue laughter).

Wormhole – by Owsley Beck
Owsley and his tight crew get stuck in outer space with nothing but a faulty Omega Drive and “Whip-it-good” whipped cream.