Eccentric Orbits

by Simon Kewin

Collected Stories of Starships and Spacedust

An astronaut alone in the void of deep space. An alien starship capable of destroying all creation. A DNA Detective in search of the genetic code of The Beatles. A terrorist explosion trapped inside a bubble of space/time. A new life-form found in the quantum echoes of the void.

Eccentric Orbits contains seventeen SF stories originally published between 1999 and 2011 and now collected together for the first time. Stories range from the very, very short up to novella length.

195 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 14, 2012

About the author

Simon Kewin is a fantasy and sci/fi writer, author of the Cloven Land fantasy trilogy, cyberpunk thriller The Genehunter , steampunk Gormenghast saga Engn , the Triple Stars sci/fi trilogy and the Office of the Witchfinder General books, published by Elsewhen Press.

He's the author of several short story collections, with his shorter fiction appearing in Analog, Nature and over a hundred other magazines.

He is currently doing an MA in creative writing while writing at least three novels simultaneously.

Reviews

[Mick Dubois · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a book with 10 years of science-fiction short stories. Some are extremely super short and I mean literally 2 or 3 sentences short. Some of them are a bit like jokes told to your friends (some are really funny!), others feel more like an idea for a story that 's never been worked out. The longer stories are of different qualities. The ones I liked most are 'The Armageddon device' and 'Terrahertz'. 'Holy Mountain' was a bit hard to get into but turned out nicely. 'The long walk' was a boring internal monologue about nothing

[Andrew Clough · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting story about space and corporate chicanery.