Available in the anthology Kalicalypse
An interesting little story about the coming apocalypse and how the world is mired in policy and nothing is more important than following the policy.
At least that what i got from it.
Like all of Yudhanjaya’s stories, it’s interesting and enjoyable.
Bye for now.
What if today was the last beautiful day ever?
Tomorrow would turn out to be dreary and dismal, overcast weather and the sun would never shine again.
Is there any hope?
This is how i feel in our current UK summer. We had a lovely May and early July and then the weather turn crap. And everyday since it’s been more crap weather. Will the sun ever come back?
Anyway, it’s a good little tiny short story that you can read for free on Robin’s website.
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Alastair is back with one of his great little stories.
This time Alastair has conjured up a racing league where the races circumnavigate small moons and such within the solar system. This is about one race, the race around Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. Super geologically active, you’d have to be insane to be racing around this. It kind of reminds me of all the old stories of early motor racing, before actual race tracks and before the FIA came along and sanitized everything.
So if you like a good motor racing story, or like Alastair’s short fiction, you’ll enjoy this one.
Now i go back to eagerly awaiting Alastair’s next book.
Bye for now.
To begin, i would just like to mention that i received a free copy of this book from Kathleen and Kelley to read and review.
I’ve always been a total fan of the Fortune series, always great writing, great characters, interesting relationships, with lots of action and shenanigans, and this story was more of the same.
This story follows on from Outrageous Fortune, so do read that first.
In this story Kathleen teams up with Kelley McKinnon once again and what the reader gets is another wonderful adventure with the crew of the Errant when they get a passenger job to carry some doctors to another part of Fortune (they’re like Fortune’s vesion of “Doctors Without Borders), but one of these passengers isn’t who he says he is. Anyway, when this passenger goes to meet up with an old friend all hell breaks loose and, once again, trouble soon finds the crew of the Errant and shenanigans ensue. Plus, we get an update on John and Jagati’s budding romance . . . awwww!
All in all, while not a big long book, it’s a very good little adventure within which we learn a lot more about our favourite airship crew and, also, a very good little adventure that’ll keep you awake reading at bedtime when you should be going to sleep. But who needs sleep, right?
A must read for all Fortune fans and if you’re not a Fortune fan yet then i would humbly suggest that you go to Outrageous Fiction and get a free copy of Soldier of Fortune and give it a read. Yes, the first book in the series is free to try, so what’s stopping you? The planet Fortune is a wonderful stage setting for these really good, character driven adventures that Kathleen and Kelly take us on. If you like lots of action with great characters and great writing you won’t be disappointed.
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Fairly good, but this series is getting rather repetitive. I really think Joseph needs to go off on a different tangent with this story line. Lex really doesn’t need to be saving every universe in existence in every story, surely there’s something else he’d rather be doing?
I like the crazy Karter stuff with lots of Ma, just not saving the universes every time Lex gets in a space ship.
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Available in the collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More.
A fun little story about coming home.
A human councillor on an alien world goes home to watch his childhood home be demolished. Along the way he reminisces about his childhood there.
It’s different and i quite enjoyed this: you might also enjoy it.
Next up will be Visit the Sins.
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If you enjoyed Joseph’s Book of Deacon side story The Adventures of Rustle and Eddy then you’ll love this little story.
Eddy borrows a few spells from his sister and goes off on an adventure to find Rustle, who hasn’t turned up for his latest visit.
Yes, those naughty fairy catchers are at it again, but they didn’t factor Eddy into their accounts.
I really enjoy the Rustle and Eddy stuff, so this was a very welcome sequel which i also really enjoyed.
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A nice little side story for all you fans of Joseph’s Book of Deacon series.
Ivy goes on a wander to cheer herself up when she gets a bored after saving the world and becoming an ambassador. One day, during her wander, she walks into an inn where Malthropes aren’t exactly made welcome.
A sweet little story.
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Have you ever fell asleep in a dream and in that sleep you start dreaming, only to fall asleep in that dream and start dreaming again. But then you wake up from that final dream and a new day begins, but it’s just soooo fucked up you can’t understand what’s going wrong with the world: because you thought you’d actually woken up because you forgot you fell asleep within a dream within a dream and you haven’t actually woke up, woke up, you just woke up within the next dream level up, you’re still dreaming. And it takes a while to realise what the fuck is going on. If that’s never happened to you then you’re really missing out a wonderful mind fuck.
It’s just like what happens in the film Inception, they go to sleep and dream, then go to sleep and dream and then go to sleep and dream, in order to get so far down the rabbit hole in order to get the thing they want.
And yes, you can fall asleep in dreams and then dream in that sleep and so on. It’s freaky!
Why am i telling you this? Because Silas Coade, our protagonist within Eversion, appears to be doing the same thing. So if you liked that idea in Inception you might just really like this one as well, because this is just as good but in a much different way. I can’t tell you why it’s different because it would totally ruin the story, you just have to believe me that it’s really good and read it for yourself.
This is currently Alastair’s last published novel and i’ve read everything else he’s written apart from the young adult, nonsensical, Revenger trilogy, which i just couldn’t cope with. So now i sit eagerly awaiting the next great story from this master of science fiction: let’s hope it’s not too long in appearing.
Bye for now.
Available in Belladonna Nights and Other Stories.
And here’s me thinking that i’d read all the Revelation Space stories, and then i find this one. Admittedly, it was published after i had read most of the Revelation Space series, so i’ll forgive myself for not reading it in the chronological order of Revelation Space.
But, anyway, it’s always nice to get another Revelation Space story thrown into ones life now and again.
This one takes us back to Chasm City, after the plague has mangled it, following a clean up crew on the lower levels. I really enjoyed it. Once again, as most things by Alastair, extremely well written and brilliant sci-fi.
Now all i have to do is wait for the next Revelation Space story, which i hope won’t be too long in coming. I love this series.
If you haven’t read Revelation Space then i suggest you follow it in chronological order and read everything — it’s really, really good.
Bye for now.