In this third chapter of our story, the children awake after the accident … just in time to see their mother stolen away by shadows and death. (http://www.tmcamp.com/works/assam-darjeeling/)
Featured as the podcast highlight on Forgotten Classics, episode 112
In the second chapter of our story, snow falls, schools close, and an accident happens. (http://www.tmcamp.com/works/assam-darjeeling/)
Featured as the podcast highlight on Forgotten Classics, episode 112.
"Assam & Darjeeling" is the story of two children who set out to rescue their dead mother from the Underworld — a nightmare place where the mythological desperately tries to keep pace with the world above. The children encounter cell-phone carrying demons, forgotten deities from defunct pantheons waiting tables, and one nasty character called Juniper who takes a particular, personal interest in their quest. (http://www.tmcamp.com/works/assam-darjeeling/)
This week’s podcast highlight (yes, again) on Forgotten Classics, episode 112.
Fresh from signing a £1m deal with Gollancz, the science fiction author Alastair Reynolds has penned a story for the Guardian which follows a new recruit sent out to battle in an interstellar war.
Nineteen years after his first short story appeared, and nine years after the first of his eight novels was published, Scales is Reynolds’ first foray into militaristic SF. In it, he explores the transformations war imposes on soldiers as his hero Nico’s mission evolves into something stranger than he could have possibly imagined.
Reynolds is best-known for his mastery of space opera – the SF sub-genre in which the stakes are high and the aliens deadly – but, after 16 years working for the European Space Agency, he brings a scientist’s rigour to the genre’s high drama.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/jun/19/alastair-reynolds-scales-short-story