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Across the Event Horizon Kindle Edition
Mercurio D Rivera (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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Across the Event Horizon contains the very best of Mercurio’s work to date; fourteen stories selected by the author himself, including “Langalana” and “Tu Sufrimiento”.
“Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us… is one of the most atmospheric, disturbing and thought-provoking short stories I have ever encountered.” – SF Signal
“Few writers in SF depict aliens quite as alien as Rivera does.” – Colin Harvey
“I was blown away by Mercurio D. Rivera’s “The Scent of Their Arrival”; it’s the finest story I’ve read for some time.” – Gareth D Jones.
“Brilliant… exciting… On my Hugo shortlist.” – Sam Tomaino, SF Revu
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 26, 2013
- File size739 KB
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- ASIN : B00C29AJYE
- Publisher : NewCon Press (March 26, 2013)
- Publication date : March 26, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 739 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 272 pages
- Lending : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #229,377 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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In Snatch Me Another we find a world gone mad with parallel realities. One needs only to reach down into the “snatcher” to grab a replacement for anything, be it an inanimate object or a living being. Lindy and Kristina lost their son Tommy to a brain tumor. Kristina saddened by the fact that Tommy died a week before his birthday snatches a new Tommy. Lindy is having a hard time accepting the new Tommy and soon learns that anything can be replaced.
Ever hear the expression “Seeing things thru rose-colored glasses”? That’s what we find in Naked Weekend. Everyone wear a bio-sensor wristlet with buttons to determine what mood they are feeling. Holographic scenes make up the new reality, that’s the world Rick and Leila live in. Leila hears of a pill that shuts off the sensors and decides she and Rick need to try reality the way it’s meant to be, but can they handle it?
Sleeping With the Anemone is a quirky tale of xenophililia, futuristic porn movies involving humans with alien plant beings. Lanny an ex “vibe” addict is given a chance to direct a movie starring Holmes Davies a leading porn star. Tricked into going to the unfriendly planet of Anemone to shoot a movie, he discovers what could happen when one sleeps with the anemone.
Doubled is where everyone, everything has a double. Singles are unacceptable, yet one man’s double wants his freedom to be an individual! A story that is reminiscent of Rod Serling.
So many other good stories are included in this collection, a bit sci-fi, a bit horror all of them written to be savored. I do hope you enjoy reading this as much as I have.
In his collection of short stories, Across the Event Horizon, Rivera not only surprises with novel ideas, those ideas will remain days after the reading. Rivera understands there are infinite possibilities (and realities) when it comes to alien encounters - even when the alien is a situation - and he writes about the chasms that will need crossing when those encounters happen.
Among the many stories in this collection, you'll read about aliens that communicate via smells ("The Scent of Their Arrival"), humans traveling far from Earth to find Salvation ("Missionaries"), and how the pain inflicted on an enemy can keep a neighborhood safe ("Tu Surfimiento Shall Protect Us"). Communication (or miscommunication) is a constant theme.
These stories may remind you of Ray Bradbury's serious storytelling, Philip K. Dick's sense of humor, and J.G. Ballard's surreal and visceral imagery. They've been widely anthologized for a reason -- they'll leave you wanting more.