Earth's first off-world colony on Zhinu, twenty-five light years away and established more than a century earlier in 2235 AD, has mysteriously gone silent.
The vast and mysterious universe is explored in this reprint anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year).
'Curtis oozes charm and humour in this pacey debut, which will be devoured by fans of Fallout and Firefly' TAMSYN MUIR 'I'm officially a member of the Grace Curtis fan club!
An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of science-fiction short stories featuring space aliens, spectacular inventions, futuristic technologies and vividly imagined worlds.
Two men had died before Syme Rector's guns to give him the key to the ancient city of Kal-Jmar-a city of untold wealth, and of robots that made desires instant commands.
To translate writings, you need a key to the code-and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born .
Being trapped in the steaming h-l of Venus is no excuse for forgetting one's manners-but anyone abducted, marooned, tricked, kept from tea might well crack under the strain!
