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The story of Eversion is narrated by Dr. Silas Coade, ship’s surgeon, who spends his spare time writing stories of a fantastical future. But when disaster strikes the Demeter, the action starts over again, this time on the coast of Patagonia around the mid-19th century. Then the scene shifts to the Antarctic, another fifty years or so in the ...
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Time Islands is the third installment of the Stories of...
- Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds
Those intricate stories combined deep imagination with...
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Instead of opening in one of Reynolds’ future worlds, the...
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Jan 11, 2024 · 2 Lock In by John Scalzi. 3 The City & the City by China Miéville. 4 The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson. 5 A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. T here are of course many types of mystery story and many types of sci-fi story, which can be recombined for a whole range of effects. What is the general appeal of this mystery-plus-sci ...
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Aug 15, 2022 · The Caves of Steel. By Isaac Asimov. A classic sci-fi detective story, The Caves of Steel follows New York City Police Detective Elijah Baley a millennium in the future. When a space traveler is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is assigned to work the case with R. Daneel Olivaw. Baley understands that the "R" stands for robot ...
Jun 2, 2021 · Vurt by Jeff Noon. In this dark cyberpunk novel, society is crumbling, and people escape using the Vurt – a virtual reality halfway between drugs and video games, accessed by feathers that you place in your mouth. The story follows Scribble, a young man whose sister Desdemona has been lost in this reality, and his Wonderland-esque journey ...
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Apr 14, 2015 · The Disappeared. by Kristine Kathryn Rusch – 1995. In a universe where humans and aliens have formed a loose government, treaties guarantee that humans are subject to alien laws when on alien soil. But alien laws often make no sense, and the punishments vary from execution to loss of a first-born child.
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Demeter is a solo horror sci-fi journaling RPG that was made for PocketQuest 2023 jam, organized by DriveThruRPG.com. It was a 2-month long jam where authors old and new were requested to create a roleplaying game with a space theme that would fit within 20 pages.
