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Mission Critical — Anthology

By 5t4n5

Mission Critical -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2019.

Standalones

This is Not The Way Home — Greg Egan
Rescue Party — Aliette de Bodard
Devil in the Dust — Linda Nagata
Hanging Gardens — Gregory Feeley
The One Who Was There — John Barnes
By the Warmth of their Calculus — Tobias S. Buckell
Mutata Superesse — Jason Fischer & Sean Williams
The Empty Gun — Yoon Ha Lee
Genesong — Peter F. Hamilton
Something in the Air — Carolyn Ives Gilman
Lost in Splendour — John Meaney
The Agreement — Dominica Phetteplace
The Fires of Prometheus — Allen M. Steele
Ice Breakers — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Cyclopterus — Peter Watts

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The Starlit Wood — Anthology

By 5t4n5

The Starlit Wood -- Anthology

Standalones

In the Desert Like a Bone (Little Red Riding Hood) — Seanan McGuire – 2016
Underground (East of the Sun, West of the Moon) — Karin Tidbeck – 2016
Even the Crumbs Were Delicious (Hansel and Gretel) — Daryl Gregory – 2016
The Super Ultra Duchess of Fedora Forest (The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage) — Charlie Jane Anders – 2016
Familiaris (The Wolves) — Genevieve Valentine – 2016
Seasons of Glass and Iron (The Glass Mountain/The Black Bull of Norroway) — Amal El-Mohtar – 2016
Badgirl, The Deadman and The Wheel of Fortune (The Girl with No Hands) — Catherynne M. Valente – 2016
Penny for a Match, Mister? (The Little Match Girl) — Garth Nix – 2016
Some Wait (The Pied Piper of Hamelin) — Stephen Graham Jones – 2016
The Thousand Eyes (The Voice of Death) — Jeffrey Ford – 2016
Giants in the Sky (Jack and the Beanstalk) — Max Gladstone – 2016
The Briar and the Rose (Sleeping Beauty) — Marjorie Liu – 2016
The Other Thea (The Shadow) — Theodora Goss – 2016
When i Lay Frozen (Thumbelina) — Margo Lanagan – 2016
Pearl (Dã Tràng and the Pearl) — Aliette de Bodard – 2016
The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle (The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle) — Sofia Samatar – 2016
Reflected (The Snow Queen) — Kat Howard – 2016
Spinning Silver (Rumpelstiltskin) — Naomi Novik – 2016

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Carbide Tipped Pens — Anthology

By 5t4n5

Carbide Tipped Pens -- AnthologyAll copyright 2014 except stated.

Standalones

The Blue Afternoon that Lasted Forever — Daniel H. Wilson
A Slow Unfurling of Truth — Aliette de Bodard
Thunderwell — Doug Beason
The Circle — Liu Cixin (translated by Ken Liu)
Old Timer’s Game — Ben Bova
The Snows of Yesteryear — Jean-Louis Trudel
Skin Deep — Leah Petersen & Gabrielle Harbowy
Lady with Fox — Gregory Benford
Habilis — Howard Hendrix
The Play’s the Thing – 2013 — Jack McDevitt
Every Hill Ends with Sky — Robert Reed
She Just Looks that Way — Eric Choi
“SIREN of Titan — David DeGraff
The Yoke of Inauspicious Stars — Kate Story
Ambiguous Nature — Carl Frederick
The Mandelbrot Bet — Dirk Strasser
Recollection — Nancy Fulda

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Seven of Infinities — Aliette de Bodard

By 5t4n5

Seven of Infinities -- Aliette de BodardSuper good Xuya story from the Scattered Pearls Belt orbitals.

This time we have a mindship that’s a master thief (with principals and ethics of course) going up against some exiles who have no principals or ethics whatsoever, and thrown right in-between a not so innocent teacher and her student.

I most certainly advise not to bother reading this story if you haven’t read all the rest of Xuya and have fully grasped overlays, mem-implants, bots and all the rest of the mindship stuff because it’s all in this one story, we even have sex between a mindship and a human: oooooh!!!

The next book in the Xuya time line is Rescue Party.

Aliette’s Page

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The Breath of War — Aliette de Bodard

By 5t4n5

The Breath of War -- Aliette de BodardCurrently available to read at Beneath Ceaseless Skies and also in the collection Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight.

This is the last of “The Universe of Xuya” stories currently listed on Aliette’s website, where it’s mentioned as being “… in a completely different corner of space”.   And yes, it most certainly is.

It’s got some sci-fi-ish things going on but at the same time it has beings carved out of rock that are breathed life into by their breath sisters who are then needed to breath life into their breath sister’s new born babies else they’re still born.   So in a lot of ways it feels far more of a fantasy story than a sci-fi one.   It’s certainly a very different thing to the rest of the Xuya stories, but it’s really quite enjoyable and i would give it the award of the most stand alone story in the Xuya universe.   If you are just wanting to grab a quick read without needing any background stuff then this would be it.

And that, as they say, is that: all current Xuya stories read apart from one.

Aliette’s Page

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Rescue Party — Aliette de Bodard

By 5t4n5

Rescue Party -- Aliette de BodardIn the anthology, Mission Critical, but also free to read at Google books.

This story is a bit both ways for me.   The good bit is that i sort of get my wish from Memorials in that this is about beings like perpetuates in some sort of V-Space, but the bad bit is that it gets rather random.

While i’m happy to let my imagination fill in things where needed this story leaves a few too many blanks to fill in.   To begin, it doesn’t explain how someone is actually taken into this Repository, we just have Giao going out of her door and meeting an oily, inky blackness; which she realises is the Repository.   Next thing, Giao is waking up in the Repository as some kind of perpetuate being and meeting her sister, a perpetuate who has been there 3 years.   Then she encounters the Rescue Party who help her to try to get out, which, no one has ever done.

And then the ending: what Giao gets to realise about the Repository and how the story ends just skips over so much.   Like Aliette didn’t have much of an idea of what all this was about and so just waved the happy-ever-after-wand at it and then realising that that wasn’t a very good ending she then waves the i-might-come-back-and-sort-it-out-wand at it as well and then ends the story without any real explanation other than it was all about a messed up mindship doing messed up things — which the escapees leave it to continue doing.

Ho hum.   Onto the last Xuya book in the series: The Breath of War.

Aliette’s Page

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