Are you a writer of Science Fiction? Of Short Stories? Then this is the place for you! Challenge Corner brings back the popular Sci-Friday science fiction short story contests. Check the newest chapter for the current challenge - and join in the fun!

Melati Soraya is an independent young software engineer, called to assist with an urgent conservation project while visiting her home in Sumatra. Tigers have always been an important part of her life, and the inspiration for her brilliant predictive analysis program, Yongki Analytics. Setting cultural and personal differences aside, she must learn to work with her annoying American drone pilot to stop the poachers, and save these beautiful endangered animals. **My entry for GE's Adventures In Science challenge, and selected as a finalist on 1/10/16. Thank you General Electric!**

The planet seems perfect for human settlement: water, an earth-like atmosphere and a lush vegetation. Mil plunges into the study of the biosphere with professional enthusiasm. But one detail slips her attention...

In the year 2168,the world has fallen into false comfort as internal tensions rise and the problems of a populated universe become apparent. We follow Gavin Ventrell while he makes his debaucherous journey through the stars as he is thrown into a fight he didn't start and finds himself met with stipulations insurmountable.

Destined for greatness only to bring death, Ahku attempts to save the future of humanity during the Great Cataclysm, all the while hunted by and elite group of Demigods, a 19 year old girl assassin working out of Japan and an quantum ship with advanced Artificial Intelligence capabilities named ADAM. Can Ahku escape with the help of his sentient drone Darius and construct the worlds most important yet dangerous device ever conceived? A surreal space opera like nothing you've encountered before...