The Expanding Universe Volume 5 — Anthology

The Expanding Universe Volume 5 -- AnthologyAll copyright 2020 except stated.

Standalones

Lightwave: Jericho Colony Rescue — A. M. Scott
The Bull Rock Blues — Felix R. Savage
Going Rogue — James Palmer
Crossing the Line — Lawrence M. Schoen
Marauder — Jeremy Fabiano
Stockade — John Hindmarsh
The Bounty Hunter’s Partner — Terry Mixon
Extinction — Michael Penmore
Golems of War — Rachel Aukes
False Positive — Mikey Campling
Welcome Earthling — J. S. Morin
If Thou Forget Us, Oh Earth — Stephanie Mylchreest
The Bridge — Colonel Jonathan P. Brazee
Bounce and Fall — Patty Jansen
The Trophany — Julia Huni
Lucky Elephants — Galen Surlak-Ramsey
The Zabolov Gambit — Charley Marsh
Hacker’s Pursuit — Wilhelmina Kirk and J. L. Stowers
A Little Bit of Kali — R.R. Virdi and Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
An Unwilling Champion — TR Cameron
Plan B — Brian Thorne
Memo-Real — Daniel Arenson
The Green Door of Fate — Craig Martelle

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The Expanding Universe Volume 4 — Anthology

The Expanding Universe Volume 4 -- AnthologyAll copyright 2018 except stated.

Standalones

Information War — by Craig Martelle
Checkmate — Colonel Jonathan P. Brazee
Skeleton Crew — Mikey Campling
BreakerMikey Campling David VanDyke
Endpoint — Mikey Campling
Unexpected Bounty — Terry Mixon
Messenger — R.R. Virdi and Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Duty — Bill Patterson (II)
The Burden of Honor — Kevin O. McLaughlin [as by Kevin McLaughlin]
The Spike — Nathan Mutch
Lights Out — Kayelle Allen
Darkened Skies — Drew Avera
Skin Suits — Justin Bell
Daughters of Ayor – 2017 — David R. Bernstein
One Last Battle [The Hunter Legacy] — Timothy Ellis
Tuesday — Lyn Forester
Mothers — C. M. Simpson
Alaska’s Vengeance [Ardent Redux Universe] — J. L. Stowers
Sycorax – 2017 — Jenetta Penner
Warp Three [The Niakrim War] – 2017 — David J. VanBergen, Jr.
A Little Surprise — P. R. Adams

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Kalicalypse — Anthology

Kalicalypse -- AnthologyCopyright 2022 unless otherwise stated.

Standalones

The New Humans — Trishna Basak
Kali_Na – 2019 — Indrapramit Das
The Art of PossibleYudhanjaya Wijeratne
The Daughter That Bleeds – 2018 — Shweta Taneja
The New Migrants — Navin Weeraratne
Anamnesis — Rupsa Dey
The Architecture of Loss — Salik Shah
Tethered — Haris A. Durrani
Steeling Minds — Kehkashan Khalid
The Almighty — Zafar Iqbal

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The Art of Possible — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

The Art of Possible -- Yudhanjaya WijeratneAvailable 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.

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The Slow Sad Suicide of Rohan Wijeratne — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

The Slow Sad Suicide of Rohan Wijeratne -- Yudhanjaya WijeratneI came across Yudhanjaya’s writing in the anthology 2054, where i found his very enjoyable Deep Ocean Blues.   So having really enjoyed that novella i thought i’d go and have a hunt around and see what else Yudhanjaya has written.

The Slow Sad Suicide of Rohan Wijeratne is, i believe, Yudhanjaya’s first book, albeit just a short story.   It tells the tale of a poor little rich kid who has never had to work for anything and has essentially squandered his life.   He’s now so fed up with his pointless rich existence he just spends his time trying to kill himself.   But he’s so rich his parents had him filled with nanites that heal his every wound and illness, preventing him from ending his own life, no matter how hard he tries.

Then, one day, while driving a tuk tuk, Rohan hears about a space program wanting volunteers to be shot straight into a black hole: even the nanites won’t save him this time.

All in all, this is a really good short story, well written, but it does get lost here and there in the terminology and theories of black holes.   But Rohan is also completely lost with all the science of it, his nanites stopped working after 30 years in cryo-sleep to get to the black hole and he’s lost a lot of his intelligence.   Essentially, being baffled by all the science nonsense puts you right in the mind of Rohan as he plummets into the abyss.   Have fun!

Yudhanjaya’s next book is Numbercaste, which i shall get around to reading at some point in the future.

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