Category: Fiction

Pebble in the Sky — Isaac Asimov

By 5t4n5

Pebble in the Sky -- Isaac AsimovThe third and last of the Empire novels and finally we get to Trantor as a galactic empire.

This time we’re back on the radio-active Earth sometime in the far flung future.

Earthers are still despised throughout the galaxy but one group of Earthers have a plan to sort all the rest of the galaxy out and finally put them in their place.

But an archeologist arrives on Earth with a few weeks to kill before the rest of his team turn up and goes off to see the sights.   On his travels he stumbles into the plot and all kinds of troubles erupt.

Another good story from Isaac, but once again, i’m left wondering how Homo sapiens are ever going to achieve any of this galactic stuff when all we can think to do is to fuck each other over at every opportunity.

And so all that’s left now is to dive into the Foundation books, beginning with Prelude to Foundation.

Bring it on…

Isaac’s Page

#scifi #isaacasimov

Fading Light — Anthology

By 5t4n5

Fading Light -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2012 unless stated.

Standalones

Parasitic Embrace — Adam Millard
The Equivalence Principle — Nick Cato
A Withering of Sorts — Stephen McQuiggan
Goldilocks Zone — Gary W. Olson
They Wait Below — Tom Olbert
Blessed Be the Shadowchildren — Malon Edwards
The Beastly Ninth — Carl Barker
Late Night Customer — David Dalglish
Rurik’s Frozen Bones — Jake Elliot
Wrath — Lee Mather
Friends of a Forgotten Man — Gord Rollo
Altus — Georgina Kamsika
Angela’s Garden — Dorian Dawes
The Long Death of Day — Timothy Baker
Out of the Black — William Meikle
Degenerates — DL Seymour
Dust — Wayne Ligon
Der Teufel Sie Wissen — TSP Sweeney
Born of Darkness — Stacey Turner
Lottery — Gene O’Neill
Where Coyotes Fear to Tread — Gef Fox
The Theophany of Nyx — Edward M. Erdelac
Double Walker — Henry P. Gravelle
Light Save Us — Ryan Lawler
Dark Tide — Mark Lawrence

#fantasy #marklawrence

Triumph Over Tragedy — Anthology

By 5t4n5

Triumph Over Tragedy -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2013 unless stated.

Standalones

Old Leatherwings — Elizabeth Bear
Quick — Mark Lawrence
When You’re Dead… — Michael A. Stackpole
Tradition — Michael J. Sullivan
Death Between the Stars — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Hell Matter — Jean Rabe
The Adjoa Gambit — Rick Novy
Hero — R.T. Kaelin
Big Apple, Small Serpent — Ari Marmell
The Pope of the Chimps — Robert Silverberg
I Am Made of Every Color — Jaym Gates
Spoils of War — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Orphan Train — Vicki Johnson-Steger
Holocaust — Maxwell Alexander Drake
Wrap — Alex Bledsoe
The Gift of the Dragons — Stephen D. Sullivan
The Kid in the Park — T.L. Gray
Duncan Derring and the Call of the Lady Luck — Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Day of the Shadows — Donald J. Bingle
Angels of Mercy — Erik Scott de Bie
Heart’s Desire — C.S. Marks
Spurn Babylon — Tobias S. Buckell
Parting the Clouds — Bradley P. Beaulieu
The Burning Servant — Steven Saus
The Caretaker of Mire — Gregory A. Wilson
The Last Incantation — Alex Shvartsman
Welcome to New York — Addie J. King
In the Glimpses — Matt Bone
Coal: 1938 — Doris Stever
Undivided — Marian Allen
Among The Stars — Sarah Hans
Sergeant Argent’s Moment in the Sun — Rob Rogers
Sperare Victor — Tim Marquitz
Shadowlands — Elisabeth Waters
Wish Upon a Star — Janine Spendlove
A Happy Mother Takes Away Pain — C.J. Henderson
Katanoi — Philip Athans
Don’t Wake Me Up — Tracy Chowdhury
One Good Deed — Bryan Young
The Battle Rose — SM Blooding
The Ring — Timothy Zahnf

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