Homecoming (science fiction) Reviews
Homecoming (science fiction)
Type: short short
This story was also published in 3Pack Science Fiction Collection #1
An astronaut must endure a long flight back to Earth on a British space craft alone after the Co-Pilot has died and all communications with England have been lost. Accompanied by the traditional Chimp on board, the astronaut, Hershel, has nothing to do but routine systems checks (the on board computer does them anyway) and participate in the mandatory Virtual Reality sessions to counter act the social deprivation experienced on long space flights. The computer mistakenly loads his dead co-pilot’s VR but Hershel decides to make the Co-Pilot’s VR world his own.
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Type: short short
This story was also published in 3Pack Science Fiction Collection #1
An astronaut must endure a long flight back to Earth on a British space craft alone after the Co-Pilot has died and all communications with England have been lost. Accompanied by the traditional Chimp on board, the astronaut, Hershel, has nothing to do but routine systems checks (the on board computer does them anyway) and participate in the mandatory Virtual Reality sessions to counter act the social deprivation experienced on long space flights. The computer mistakenly loads his dead co-pilot’s VR but Hershel decides to make the Co-Pilot’s VR world his own.
**Check out more from the author**
-The Trilon
**Check out more science fiction**
-#1 Shades of Gray- Noir, City Shrouded By Darkness
-Finding Sanctuary
-Garden Of Eden Machine
-Rescuing A UFO- Close Encounter Of The 5th Kind
-Road Rage
-Skip Back Jack
-The Tears Of Alegia
-To A Green Country
-The Trilon
-The Wino- Rogue Super Soldier
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The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition
This second volume of The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy features over a quarter million words of fiction by some of the genre’s greatest authors, as selected by Rich Horton, a well-known and well-received contributor to many of the field’s most respected magazines.
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Archangel Book Two – Checkmate
Archangel Book Two – Checkmate
To quench his vengeful lust for the Archangel who scattered his remains at the edge of the universe, the Reptilian ruler orders the sacrificial death of Michael’s teenage daughter. Half human and a full fledged Archangel on his father’s home world, Michael must return to Earth to save his daughter from fiendish claws, and his native planet from enslavement or worse… But the way home is fraught with dangers, some more insidious than others. Nothing prepared Michael for the kind of trial he must face, when his rambunctious past catches up with him at the worst possible time…To quench his vengeful lust for the Archangel who scattered his remains at the edge of the universe, the Reptilian ruler orders the sacrificial death of Michael’s teenage daughter. Half human and a full fledged Archangel on his father’s home world, Michael must return to Earth to save his daughter from fiendish claws, and his native planet from enslavement or worse… But the way home is fraught with dangers, some more insidious than others. Nothing prepared Michael for the kind of trial he must face, when his rambunctious past catches up with him at the worst possible time…
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The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection Reviews
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection
* Cory Doctorow * Robert Charles Wilson * Michael Swanwick * Ian McDonald * Benjamin Rosenbaum * Kage Baker * Bruce McAllister * Alastair Reynolds * Jay Lake * Ruth Nestvold * Gregory Benford * Justin Stanchfield * Walter Jon Williams * Greg Van Eekhout * Robert Reed * David D. Levine * Paul J. McAuley * Mary Rosenblum * Daryl Gregory * Jack Skillingstead * Paolo Bacigalupi * Greg Egan * Elizabeth Bear * Sarah Monette * Ken MacLeod * Stephen Baxter * Carolyn Ives Gilman * John Barnes * A.M. Dellamonica
Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.
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The Collector’s Book of Science Fiction by H. G. Wells Reviews
The Collector’s Book of Science Fiction by H. G. Wells
This book contains the complete novels: The War of the Worlds, The First Men on the Moon and When the Sleeper Wakes. Also included are a variety of short stories, including the noted The Country of the Blind, The Empire of the Ants, The Valley of Spiders, and The Man Who Could Work Miracles. In addition to those spectacular accounts, Stories of the Stone Age are included as an extra bonus. These stories appear exactly as they did in the illustrated magazines that were prevalent in the early 1900s.
This collection of Well’s most famous science fiction breathes new life into these already thrilling stories, some of which have not been seen in decades.
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The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection Reviews
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection
The thirty-two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:
John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright.
Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.
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Howl of the Wolf (Heirs to the Throne (Book 1))
Howl of the Wolf (Heirs to the Throne (Book 1))
Drako is a planet on the fringe of civilized space suitable for colonization, but a society of telepathic wolves already occupies the world. When a colony ship lands on Drako, the wolves try to communicate but find no intelligent creatures to mindspeak with them. The wolves watch as colonists develop Drako into a recreation planet for wealthy tourists. Settlers became feudal lords, desert sheiks, oriental samurai, and ordinary peasants depending on their level of investment. After several generations of catering to tourism, the monarchy revolted against technology and closed Drako to offworld visitors. Distaste for technology mutated into superstitious hatred, and anyone caught with spacer tools or weapons could be executed.
In civilized space scientists invented Transfer, a means to insure immortality by moving a human mind into a clone—free of hereditary defects. Every fifty years (a span) an individual qualified for Transfer but the tradeoff was large debt to the Institute. Governments toppled and war left the Institute in total control. Individuals were virtual slaves to Institute rules, but the inventors of Transfer became a threat.
When the medical spaceship Zebulon flees from an Institute death sentence, the captain doesn’t know an assassin infiltrated his crew. They picked the remote planet of Drako for their exile where a dying king needs an heir, and hereditary lords hate spacers. When the king forces Captain Donovan to compete for the crown to protect the lives of his crew. Faced with superstitions, hatred, and eminent danger, the crew must adapt to a feudal society without using modern tools or weapons. Fortunately the Transfer process enhanced the natural talents of each person and might give them an advantage. When Kriegen, the leader of a wolf pack makes telepathic contact with Donovan, he gains a valuable ally agains Jarrack, the Institute assassin who is determined to kill him.
Drako is a planet on the fringe of civilized space suitable for colonization, but a society of telepathic wolves already occupies the world. When a colony ship lands on Drako, the wolves try to communicate but find no intelligent creatures to mindspeak with them. The wolves watch as colonists develop Drako into a recreation planet for wealthy tourists. Settlers became feudal lords, desert sheiks, oriental samurai, and ordinary peasants depending on their level of investment. After several generations of catering to tourism, the monarchy revolted against technology and closed Drako to offworld visitors. Distaste for technology mutated into superstitious hatred, and anyone caught with spacer tools or weapons could be executed.
In civilized space scientists invented Transfer, a means to insure immortality by moving a human mind into a clone—free of hereditary defects. Every fifty years (a span) an individual qualified for Transfer but the tradeoff was large debt to the Institute. Governments toppled and war left the Institute in total control. Individuals were virtual slaves to Institute rules, but the inventors of Transfer became a threat.
When the medical spaceship Zebulon flees from an Institute death sentence, the captain doesn’t know an assassin infiltrated his crew. They picked the remote planet of Drako for their exile where a dying king needs an heir, and hereditary lords hate spacers. When the king forces Captain Donovan to compete for the crown to protect the lives of his crew. Faced with superstitions, hatred, and eminent danger, the crew must adapt to a feudal society without using modern tools or weapons. Fortunately the Transfer process enhanced the natural talents of each person and might give them an advantage. When Kriegen, the leader of a wolf pack makes telepathic contact with Donovan, he gains a valuable ally agains Jarrack, the Institute assassin who is determined to kill him.
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Exceptional (Exceptional Series Book #1) Reviews
Exceptional (Exceptional Series Book #1)
“In the future, things are anything but ordinary…”
In 2022, the United States commissioned a group of scientists to experiment with genetic mutations. Their goal was to create a serum that would alter the human genetic code, making the subject stronger and faster. They succeeded but their victory was short lived. Not only had they created a super serum, but also an airborne virus. By 2025, seventy-five percent of the world’s population had perished. The survivors, well their lives would never be the same.
175 A.V.
Ally is an Ordinary; a human immune to the virus. She lives in a settlement outside the City with her mother and twin brother, but lately it doesn’t seem to be enough. She is wrestling between being with her family and volunteering to move to the City, where she can work for the Exceptionals.
Luke is an Exceptional; a superior human being. His ancestors were infected with the virus and lived through it, leaving their super human strength and special abilities to him. He has never given much thought to Ordinarys, despite pressure from his father to choose one from the ORC. But all of that changes when he meets Ally…”In the future, things are anything but ordinary…”
In 2022, the United States commissioned a group of scientists to experiment with genetic mutations. Their goal was to create a serum that would alter the human genetic code, making the subject stronger and faster. They succeeded but their victory was short lived. Not only had they created a super serum, but also an airborne virus. By 2025, seventy-five percent of the world’s population had perished. The survivors, well their lives would never be the same.
175 A.V.
Ally is an Ordinary; a human immune to the virus. She lives in a settlement outside the City with her mother and twin brother, but lately it doesn’t seem to be enough. She is wrestling between being with her family and volunteering to move to the City, where she can work for the Exceptionals.
Luke is an Exceptional; a superior human being. His ancestors were infected with the virus and lived through it, leaving their super human strength and special abilities to him. He has never given much thought to Ordinarys, despite pressure from his father to choose one from the ORC. But all of that changes when he meets Ally…
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Heir Apparent – Digital Science Fiction Anthology 4 Reviews
Heir Apparent – Digital Science Fiction Anthology 4
Heir Apparent – Digital Science Fiction Anthology 4, is an anthology of ten original science fiction short stories from professional writers. We are pleased to present in our fourth anthology an exciting collection of new stories from established authors. Heir Apparent includes 10 never-before-published science fiction stories by Robert Lowell Russell, Brandon Nolta, George Walker, Paul Cook, Eric James Stone, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Ed Greenwood, Ronald D. Ferguson, Alex Kane, and Martin L. Shoemaker. Our fourth edition of the Digital Science Fiction anthology series serves up a smorgasbord of terrific stories; however, each story has its own unique version of an heir, and we look forward to hearing from our readers on whether those heirs truly do represent a passing down of some type of human bond or connection. We welcome back Christine Clukey as editor for anthology 4. Thank you for your continued support of Digital Science Fiction. Enjoy.
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The Old Store: A Science Fiction Anthology
The Old Store: A Science Fiction Anthology
Post-apocalyptic science fiction:
A close-knit group of men, women and children drive across a wilderness of broken concrete. They scavenge for food while trying to stay one step ahead of groups of starving marauders. The Families attempt to use their various skills to establish a safe, self-sustaining community. It isn’t long before their haven is surrounded by armed gangs.
There are twenty-three named characters. See how Jed, Sylvie, Brian, Jaide and their families tangle with gang members Snake, Rat, Stink and Grease. Discover the roles played by the spirited Nina, airport guy Graham, and the biker horde.
54,000 words
A couple of snippets:
‘Like I said, I ain’t no lady!’ Nina held Snake’s gun at arm’s length, with the muzzle against the back of his head. She pulled back the hammer on the over-sized, chrome-plated revolver.
‘Take it easy,’ Snake said.
‘Don’t ‘easy’ me,’ Nina said. ‘You’re the one making trouble.’ The others saw from her face that she was in deadly earnest. ‘Now move that truck, or your boss gets it.’
*
Was Stink’s plan just a bluff? Was he really trying to take over from Snake or was he playing a game to throw Nina off guard? While they were distracted, Nina moved again, so fast they didn’t see it coming. She drew her own gun and pointed it straight at Stink.
Stink spat on the ground. ‘Jeez, she’s fast,’ he said.
**
Sylvie looked out across the rooftop, sunlight pouring in through the four-sided pyramidal roof.
‘You can almost see the beans and tomatoes growing,’ she thought.
Her husband Jed, Brian and his wife Jaide, Grandpa Gunn, all the kids, and Christine and Simon were sitting around the dining table with satisfied looks on their faces. It was the second week in a row they’d had roast boar for Sunday lunch.
‘We call it Sunday,’ Sylvie thought, resting her hands on her own slightly over-filled stomach, ‘Who knows what day it is according to the old calendar.’
*
A plume of black smoke jetted out the exhaust ports of a huge battle tank. The tank lurched forward, the sound of its failing engine reaching the roof terrace a second or so later. Its squat, ugly shape was covered in black and brown camouflage and it positively bristled with armaments. The most prominent weapon was the main gun mounted on its top turret. The beast made it the fifty metres from the slip road into the car park, riding straight over the remains of a burnt-out car before the alternately stuttering and over-revving engine finally cut, and the short, stubby gun muzzle swivelled to point directly at the top of the building.
Post-apocalyptic science fiction:
A close-knit group of men, women and children drive across a wilderness of broken concrete. They scavenge for food while trying to stay one step ahead of groups of starving marauders. The Families attempt to use their various skills to establish a safe, self-sustaining community. It isn’t long before their haven is surrounded by armed gangs.
There are twenty-three named characters. See how Jed, Sylvie, Brian, Jaide and their families tangle with gang members Snake, Rat, Stink and Grease. Discover the roles played by the spirited Nina, airport guy Graham, and the biker horde.
54,000 words
A couple of snippets:
‘Like I said, I ain’t no lady!’ Nina held Snake’s gun at arm’s length, with the muzzle against the back of his head. She pulled back the hammer on the over-sized, chrome-plated revolver.
‘Take it easy,’ Snake said.
‘Don’t ‘easy’ me,’ Nina said. ‘You’re the one making trouble.’ The others saw from her face that she was in deadly earnest. ‘Now move that truck, or your boss gets it.’
*
Was Stink’s plan just a bluff? Was he really trying to take over from Snake or was he playing a game to throw Nina off guard? While they were distracted, Nina moved again, so fast they didn’t see it coming. She drew her own gun and pointed it straight at Stink.
Stink spat on the ground. ‘Jeez, she’s fast,’ he said.
**
Sylvie looked out across the rooftop, sunlight pouring in through the four-sided pyramidal roof.
‘You can almost see the beans and tomatoes growing,’ she thought.
Her husband Jed, Brian and his wife Jaide, Grandpa Gunn, all the kids, and Christine and Simon were sitting around the dining table with satisfied looks on their faces. It was the second week in a row they’d had roast boar for Sunday lunch.
‘We call it Sunday,’ Sylvie thought, resting her hands on her own slightly over-filled stomach, ‘Who knows what day it is according to the old calendar.’
*
A plume of black smoke jetted out the exhaust ports of a huge battle tank. The tank lurched forward, the sound of its failing engine reaching the roof terrace a second or so later. Its squat, ugly shape was covered in black and brown camouflage and it positively bristled with armaments. The most prominent weapon was the main gun mounted on its top turret. The beast made it the fifty metres from the slip road into the car park, riding straight over the remains of a burnt-out car before the alternately stuttering and over-revving engine finally cut, and the short, stubby gun muzzle swivelled to point directly at the top of the building.
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