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Datafall: Collected Speculative Fiction
In Datafall: Collected Speculative Fiction, seven shorts by Rich Larson range from far-flung space opera to near-future noir, sinister steampunk to mind-bending time travel, and darkly humorous to subtly thought-provoking.
In EVERY SO OFTEN, Victor has been living in the past for a long time--his job is to murder anyone who might try to alter it. He's been successful so far, but on a long enough timeline..?
MEMORY CATHEDRALS is the first scifi short exclusive to this collection. When a star footballer's career is cut short by injury, he decides to sell his memories...but that's not all he's doing with them.
LOOPHOLES takes us to the 22nd century, where a wealthy murderer has found a new way to dodge the law. But Klaus Barbier, part-time reamer addict and full-time homicide detective, has never been above bending the rules himself.
In BACK SO SOON, a bored businesswoman is determined to add someone interesting to her life--and she seems to have hit the jackpot when a shell-shocked colonist returns to Seattle, Washington, Earth.
FACTORY MAN visits the steampunk city of Colgrid, where a young soldier returns home to find that corpses are no longer wasted on caskets.
In DATAFALL, the final and titular exclusive, Solomon and his father take their technology out of hiding and await the Cloud.
Datafall: Collected Speculative Fiction contains over 10 000 words of hard-hitting sci-fi by an up-and-coming young author and contains six original cover illustrations by artist Christopher Ruz.
In EVERY SO OFTEN, Victor has been living in the past for a long time--his job is to murder anyone who might try to alter it. He's been successful so far, but on a long enough timeline..?
MEMORY CATHEDRALS is the first scifi short exclusive to this collection. When a star footballer's career is cut short by injury, he decides to sell his memories...but that's not all he's doing with them.
LOOPHOLES takes us to the 22nd century, where a wealthy murderer has found a new way to dodge the law. But Klaus Barbier, part-time reamer addict and full-time homicide detective, has never been above bending the rules himself.
In BACK SO SOON, a bored businesswoman is determined to add someone interesting to her life--and she seems to have hit the jackpot when a shell-shocked colonist returns to Seattle, Washington, Earth.
FACTORY MAN visits the steampunk city of Colgrid, where a young soldier returns home to find that corpses are no longer wasted on caskets.
In DATAFALL, the final and titular exclusive, Solomon and his father take their technology out of hiding and await the Cloud.
Datafall: Collected Speculative Fiction contains over 10 000 words of hard-hitting sci-fi by an up-and-coming young author and contains six original cover illustrations by artist Christopher Ruz.
38 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 5, 2012
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About the author
Rich Larson
199 books251 followersRich Larson was born in Galmi, Niger, has studied in Rhode Island and worked in the south of Spain, and now lives in Ottawa, Canada. Since he began writing in 2011, he’s sold over a hundred stories, the majority of them speculative fiction published in magazines like Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, and Tor.com.
His work appears in numerous Year’s Best anthologies and has been translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, French and Italian. Annex, his debut novel and first book of The Violet Wars trilogy, comes out in July 2018 with Orbit Books. Tomorrow Factory, his debut collection, follows in October 2018 with Talos Press.
Besides writing, he enjoys travelling, learning languages, playing soccer, watching basketball, shooting pool, and dancing kizomba.
His work appears in numerous Year’s Best anthologies and has been translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, French and Italian. Annex, his debut novel and first book of The Violet Wars trilogy, comes out in July 2018 with Orbit Books. Tomorrow Factory, his debut collection, follows in October 2018 with Talos Press.
Besides writing, he enjoys travelling, learning languages, playing soccer, watching basketball, shooting pool, and dancing kizomba.
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July 12, 2016
This is a really interesting example of a volume of unique, compelling short fiction tied together by a particular genre. As an aspiring writer I think these stories are great examples of what can be done with very little exposition.
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