The first book in the Merlin Series tetralogy.
There’s just a handful of humans left with a galaxy full of nasty cyborgs hunting them down to extinction, so it’s time to find a place to “hideaway”. But one person, Merlin, doesn’t want to “hideaway”, instead he wants to go and find a weapon to fight back with.
All the usual best from Alastair. It’s great to have a break from the shorts as i’m working through his whole back catalogue and get into something a bit bigger: this is looking to be a really good series.
Next up is Minla’s Flowers.
You’ll find Hideaway in the collection, Zima Blue and Other Stories, or in Interzone.
Bye for now.
Originally published as The Suspect Genome in 1993.
Published in Interzone #86, Flying Cups and Saucers, and 25 Years in the Word Mines.
This was published in Interzone, Issue 75, way back in 1993.
In the anthology, 