Anthony Ryan really does write like he is a cross between Neal Stephenson and William Gibson wrapped together and then put in a dark closet with the lights off, with monsters on the inside. These Slab City Blues novellas, are utterly fantastic.

THE PLOT: This one is about a missing girl, who turned up on the Slab with some bodyguards. McLeod is messaged by an unidentified person on his Smart (a communications device - phone, tablet, assistant, and everything else you could want). The person who More...

well written short story and sequel to Slab City Blues (as of now it is also free on the author's website) in keeping with what I came to expect from the author of the awesome Blood Song, but otherwise fairly standard stuff I've seen million times and moreover stuff I am not that excited about so would not have even looked at but for being written by Anthony Ryan

A nice enjoyable short. Raymond Chandler in an orbital habitat.