Watching Over Us

by Will McIntosh

A captivating new short story from Hugo Award winner Will McIntosh in the same world as Defenders.The Luyten came from the stars and quickly overran mankind. Now, a small remnant of the Army huddle in the dark and work to fight back as best they can. A former fast food manager leading a troop of children. The only people left to defend us. But rumors have reached them, word of a secret ally, supers soldiers who can turn the tide of the war.

40 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 21, 2014

About the author

Will McIntosh is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction author, and a winner or finalist of many other awards. His alien invasion novel Defenders, is currently optioned for a feature film, while his Middle Grades novel The Classmate has been optioned for a TV series by Disney/ABC.

Along with ten novels that have been translated into nine different languages, Will has published over sixty short stories in magazines such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Lightspeed.

Will was a psychology professor before turning to writing full time. He lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, and is the father of twins. You can follow him on Twitter @willmcintoshSF.

Reviews

[Courtney · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5
I don't know how to rate this, it's hard because I usually only give 2 & 1 stars to books I don't like but I didn't dislike this it's more of:

•Honestly I don't really understand why this nouvelle was written.
•I usually love my novellas but I don't get this one.
•It's not bad or anything, it's just, well, based smack in the middle of the actual book.
•It's very short, causing it to feel like nothing really happened.
•Doesn't follow the main characters & I don't think these new ones are mentioned at all in the original story. Unless I missed it?

So it just seems like something the author wrote just for the heck of it.