Available in the collection, Beyond the Aquila Rift.
A soldier gets injured on a battlefield and is rescued by a medical robot and placed in a trauma pod, but things aren’t quite as they might seem.
Is this the future of medical care, with AI treating us in pods? Probably. I think this story gives us some of Alastair’s thoughts on the matter.
Brilliant!
Next up from Alastair is The Water Thief.
Bye for now.
Available in the collection, Beyond the Aquila Rift and the anthology Edge of Infinity.
In the future, when we have space travel all over the solar system, there might be some sculptors who decide to carve asteroids and other things in space and leave them floating around as works of art for other space travellers to look upon.
This story involves one such artist and probably the greatest work of a rock carver that ever was, or maybe will ever be: and do they want the fame/infamy due them because of it.
Super good, Alastair’s imagination at its best. I really enjoyed this wonderful idea of future artists.
Next up from Alastair is Trauma Pod.
Bye for now.
Available in Belladonna Nights and Other Stories.
Another super good little story from Alastair, who is just as good at the short stories as he is at the massively long epics he writes.
This time we’re transported to the Amazon rain forest and once more the bulldozers are threatening the indigenous tribes.
Coming next from Alastair is Vainglory.
Bye for now.
Another great story from this master wonderful story teller. A silly man decides to buy a kraken egg to hatch in a bathtub because he thinks it’ll make him rich: how foolish some people are.
You can read it for free at Uncanny Magazine.
If you would prefer to listen to the audio book then you can listen to it in the ‘Uncanny Magazine Podcast’.
Bye for now.
Available in Belladonna Nights and Other Stories and Solaris Rising 1.
A really good story. Not too long, just long enough for Alastair to make his point about the universe.
Alastair has a good physicist moment in this when two characters are discussing about the expansion of the universe and what it will mean for future peoples of the universe: very interesting and well worth reading this story for alone.
Next up from Alastair will be Magic Bone Woman.
Bye for now.
Available in the anthology, The Year’s Best Science Fiction #29.
A rather short short which would be great if Alastair expands upon it at some point in the future. A rather different relationship is revealed between the pilot and the ship.
Next up from Alastair will be For the Ages.
Bye for now.
Available in the collection, Beyond the Aquila Rift.
Another of Alastair’s Mars stories. This one is set in Mars’ future after a few goes at terraforming have happened before getting things right.
But what happened to all that old terraforming equipment?
I really thought this was a wonderful story, a lost stowaway girl meets an old man who takes her to see a Martian sea.
Next up in Alastair’s timeline is Ascension Day.
Bye for now.
Available in the anthology, Shine.
A wonderful twist on the “should we resurrect dinosaurs” theme. Especially for the heavy rock types out there.
Next up in Alastair’s time line is The Old Man and the Martian Sea.
Bye for now.
A good little bit of background about the language and naming system of all things Fortune.
Best read before any of the books as it’ll help make sense of some of the words used.
You can read this by clicking here and play with the big red synth as well.
A super good little story, really enjoyable.
And best of all, it’s free. So have at it and try some Robin Sloan if you haven’t already.
Bye for now.