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Ansible 15717
(The Ansible Stories #1.3)
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"Imagine a forest ten times that intense, an entire ecosystem of miniature forests growing inside the hollow bole of a tree the size of a spaceport. Then imagine that the tree of such prodigious vitality is not even a tree, but only a kind of flowering weed with an exterior harder than bark, harder than granite. Imagine a single nocturnal blossom that would fill the Al-Mas
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Kindle Edition, 29 pages
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November 10th 2014
by Westmarch Publishing
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O.k., it's official, I am a supporter of Stant over at Patreon. His prose deserves nothing less.
Not only does he explore what life could feel like for a plant-like lifeform, he also writes intriguing prose about a life where Islam is portrayed in a positive way. Given how hard I found it to discover good storytelling which does not portray Muslims as towel-heads at worst, and scientific ignoramuses at best, the Ansible series are a very welcome breath of fresh air.
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Not only does he explore what life could feel like for a plant-like lifeform, he also writes intriguing prose about a life where Islam is portrayed in a positive way. Given how hard I found it to discover good storytelling which does not portray Muslims as towel-heads at worst, and scientific ignoramuses at best, the Ansible series are a very welcome breath of fresh air.
The rest of the story you have ...more

I came across this in a list of 'positive portrayals of Islam in sci-fi" and having read very few such portrayals, I jumped on it. (It didn't hurt that the first 3 shorts were free at the time).
I thought this was really beautifully written. I didn't like it quite as much as the first one and didn't think it stood on its own as well, but it was still lovely and emotive. Plus, I liked how it tied in with the first story. I really felt the joy, anger, confusion and fear, followed by sad acceptance ...more
I thought this was really beautifully written. I didn't like it quite as much as the first one and didn't think it stood on its own as well, but it was still lovely and emotive. Plus, I liked how it tied in with the first story. I really felt the joy, anger, confusion and fear, followed by sad acceptance ...more

Wow! What a terrific short story. If HP Lovecraft had read Anisble 15717, he would have thought "I wish I'd written this!" Cosmic horror at it's finest.
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As ever, Stant Litore's prose is a delight to read. Ansible 15717 (the character flung across space (and maybe time)), instead of being an Ansible seemingly assigned to a random world, is a woman courted by Starmind, targetted for a world they know at least something about. It's disturbing to consider that Ansible 15715 and 15716 might've been purposefully selected for the worlds to which they were sent, now that I think about it...
In that sense, it is a relief - one unsought, one I didn't even ...more
In that sense, it is a relief - one unsought, one I didn't even ...more
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Stant Litore is the author of Ansible, The Running of the Tyrannosaurs, The Zombie Bible, and Dante’s Heart. Besides science fiction and fantasy, he has written the writers’ toolkits Write Worlds Your Readers Won’t Forget and Write Characters Your Readers Won’t Forget, as well as Lives of Unstoppable Hope and Lives of Unforgetting, and has been featured in Jeff Vandermeer’s Wonderbook: An Illustra
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