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Keystone Chronicles (Third Flatiron Anthologies) Paperback – August 9, 2016
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- Print length184 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateAugust 9, 2016
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.42 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100692766715
- ISBN-13978-0692766712
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- Publisher : Third Flatiron Publishing (August 9, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 184 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0692766715
- ISBN-13 : 978-0692766712
- Item Weight : 7.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.42 x 8.5 inches
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About the authors
Gustavo Bondoni is an Argentine writer with over three hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. His latest novel is Jungle Lab Terror (2020). He has also published another monster book Ice Station: Death (2019), three science fiction novels: Incursion (2017), Outside (2017) and Siege (2016) and an ebook novella entitled Branch. His short fiction is collected in Pale Reflection (2020), Off the Beaten Path (2019) Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011).
In 2019, Gustavo was awarded second place in the Jim Baen Memorial Contest and in 2018 he received a Judges Commendation (and second place) in The James White Award. He was also a 2019 finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest.
His website is at www.gustavobondoni.com
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Bascomb James is a clinical virologist, author, and editor who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His daytime persona has authored or edited four scientific textbooks and more than 60 scientific articles and chapters. His nighttime persona is an author, editor, and science fiction fan. Bascomb is the anthologist and editor for the Far Orbit anthologies published by World Weaver Press. The first Far Orbit volume, Far Orbit: Speculative Space Adventures was published in 2014 and has garnered many outstanding reviews. The second volume, Far Orbit Apogee will be published in October, 2015.
A science-fiction fan since childhood, Bascomb credits his interest in science, engineering, and invention to the science fiction stories he read as a child. Bascomb blogs about writing, editing, storytelling, and life in a Northern tier state (Up North Stories) at http://www.bascombjames.com. He also tweets occasionally @BascombJ.
A resident of North Carolina's Outer Banks, A.P searches for that unique element that twists the everyday commonplace into the weird. When he's not writing fiction, he composes music, dabbles in animation, and muses about theology and mind-hacking, all while watching way too many online movies.
John M. Campbell speculates on the worlds currently unknown to us that science and engineering may unlock. He is compelled by the promise technology offers to address many of the issues facing human survival. The prospect of extraterrestrial life in our solar system on Mars and the outer planets fascinates him. He finds intriguing the likelihood that machine intelligence will likely surpass mankind’s ability to control it in this century. Inspiration for his stories often comes from the strange realities of quantum physics and cosmology.
John grew up reading science fiction and loved imagining a future extrapolated from what is now known. He hopes his stories will inspire careers in science and engineering as the authors he read inspired his career.
John lives with his wife in Denver, Colorado. Access his website at www.JohnMCampbell.com.
HOPE EVERYONE IS ENJOYING 2019 SO FAR!
And thank you again for your interest in my writing.
CIRSOVA MAGAZINE #7 is now available, with my Heroic SF Adventure Story, "The Great Culling Emporium". Check it out!
My Kindle Novella, the Native American/Sioux Indian Dystopian SciFi story, "All Legends Start In The Sky", is only $.99 - and another fun story if you like SF Adventure!
Amazon has done better with my book pages, and has most of my books listed on the first couple pages. (Although if you're a Marilyn Monroe or Marilyn Manson fan - they're still in here somewhere!)
TRIVIA: If you decide to check out the reviews on the older Third Flatiron anthos, be sure and notice the reviews by my favorite comedian (now deceased *sniff*) "Robina Williams".
GOOD NEWS!
My hi-tech humor book, "The Best Computer Humor On the Web" continues to be my best seller, especially in paperback. As well as my SteamPunk Western short story in the anthology "Cosmic Hooey".
I've dropped the price on the Kindle versions of some of my books. If you've wanted to read some of my other genre books, this is your chance. The following books are only $1.50 to $1.70 for the Kindle versions:
Stumbling Hot-Link Treacheries!: Humorous Near Future Science Fiction Stories
Queen Mother: Castles, Conquest and Captured Hearts: Volume I
Adventures with PET (Past Examination Technology): Time Travel for the Desperate
Culture Crash!: A California Yankee Transplanted to Texas
Chronicles of Mathias - Volume One: Reptilian Rebirth
SMALL AWARDS
I won the Editor's Choice Award (June 2013) for my post-war story of rebuilding a shattered life ('Losses Beyond The Kill Point') published in "Fiction Vortex." And the "Strange Valentines" anthology by Whortleberry Press (2012, sold thru Lulu) awarded me for Best Science Fiction Love Story ('Child Trim') in that volume.
Thanks again for your interest!
An Ottawa teacher by day, Brandon Crilly has been previously published by On Spec, The 2017 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide, and Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation. He received an Honorable Mention in the 2016 Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards, reviews fiction for BlackGate.com and develops programming for Can-Con in Ottawa. You can find Brandon at brandoncrilly.wordpress.com or on Twitter: @B_Crilly.
Judith Field was born in Liverpool and lives in London. She is the daughter of writers, and learned how to agonise over fiction submissions at her mother’s (and father’s) knee.
She has two daughters, a son, a granddaughter and a grandson (who inspired her first published story when he broke her laptop keyboard. Unlike in the story, a magical creature didn’t come out of the laptop and fix her life). Her fiction, mainly speculative, has appeared in a variety of publications, mainly in the USA. She speaks five languages and can say, “Please publish this story” in all of them. She is also a pharmacist, freelance journalist, editor, medical writer, and indexer.
Bear Kosik is a playwright and author of three novels and a book on the current state of democracy in the USA. His short fiction, poetry, blogs, plays, and essays have been published in various reviews, websites, and anthologies. He also has ghostwritten three memoirs.
Bear was raised in the Baltimore-Washington area. He has lived near Albany, NY since 1995. He spent over 30 years working in higher education as a professor of political science and a student success specialist. His hobbies include gardening, cooking, traveling, and reading books on natural science, religion, geography, and world history.
Off-Off-Broadway Productions:
• Between Panic and Desire – NY Summerfest Theater Festival, NYC, August 7, 11 & 12, 2018 (full length)
• Between Panic and Desire – Midtown International Theater Festival, NYC, August 2, 4 & 6, 2017 (one act)
• Alpha Betty – The Players Theatre New Short Play & Musical Festival, June 15-18, 2017
• Alpha Betty – Manhattan Repertory Theatre, NYC, April 19-20, 2017
• Hiding Bodies – Midtown International Theater Festival, NYC, July 16-17, 2016
• Ghost Gig – Manhattan Repertory Theatre, NYC, July 7, 9, 12, 13, and 15, 2016
• Déjà vu on the Obituary Page – Manhattan Repertory Theatre, NYC, June 2, 4, and 5, 2016
Publications:
• The Soul of Glory (as Hugh Dudley), bearly designed publications, July 2018 (novel)
• “Apricot” (as Hugh Dudley) Ripples in Time, John Davis, ed. Spring 2018 (short story)
• “Almond Lamprey” Twisted Vine Literary & Fine Arts Journal, Jennifer Hungerford, ed., Fall 2017/Spring 2018 (short story)
• “I Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly” (as Hugh Dudley) Runcible Spoon, Katt Strafford, ed. April 2018 (flash fiction)
• “Anemone Legume” Calliope, Sandy Raschke, ed., Spring 2018 (short story)
• “Sea Glass Harvest” Weirdbook #37, January 2018 (short story)
• “Tragically Hip” The Airgonaut, Jeremy Tackett, ed., January 2018 (flash fiction)
• “Plethora Peruke” Silver Streams, Michael McGrath, ed., December 2017 (short story)
• “You Are What You Eat” (as Hugh Dudley) AHF Magazine, Issue 3, Grey Wolf, ed. Wolfian Press, December 2017 (short story)
• “Singularity” Ordinary Madness, Weasel Press, October 2017 (flash fiction)
• “Father’s Day” The Invisible Bear, Jessica Q. Stark, ed., Summer 2017 (poem)
• “Johnny Forward Somehow Knows” (as Hugh Dudley) Lose Yourself, David L. Repsher, ed., Scribes Valley, May 2017 (short story)
• "Period of Recovery" The Book of Hope, Krysta Gibson, ed., Silver Owl Publications, April 2017 (essay)
• C Square (with Paul Barone), Double Dragon Press, November 2016 (novel)
• “Déjà vu on the Obituary Page” The Bear Review, http://www.thebear-review.com/, November 2016 (one-act play)
• Crossing Xavier (as Hugh Dudley), bearly designed publications, September 2016 (novel)
• Three Families: A Novella and Two Plays, bearly designed publications, August 2016
• “See You on Hel” Keystone Chronicles, Juliana Rew, ed., Third Flatiron Press, August 2016 (short story)
• “Ranulf Takes Flight” Queer Sci Fi Flight Anthology, Mischief Corner Books, July 2016 (flash fiction)
• “Waiting at Dusk” I Am Waiting, Silver Birch Press, December 2015 (poem)
• “Boots on the Ground” The Brawny and the Bold, Kellan Publishing, November 2015 (novella)
• The Secret History of Another Rome, Kellan Publishing, April 2015; reissued by bearly designed publications, May 2016 (novel)
• “Now Define Excited” River & South Review, December 2014 (essay)
• Political commentaries – http://www.dailykos.com/user/Ruffbear7
• Political and social commentaries – http://www.opednews.com/hkbearmcneelege
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These 19 science fiction and fantasy stories take the theme of “keystone events” and run with it in wildly, entertainingly different directions. In the disarmingly simple tale of Thomas Gaines, we meet the prospector who parlayed his rediscovery of the long lost Keystone Mine on a far-distant asteroid into immense wealth and fame. But in doing so, he left behind on that remote spec the love of his life: Pedra Angular, Komatsu, Ltd. Autonomous Miner Model 3326 and her budding artificial intelligence that allowed her to share Gaines’ fondness for the movie “Casablanca”.
And then we have the piece on “Our Problem Child: Langerfeld, the Moon”. Following the ruinous RepRip Wars, what little of it remains moves in a perilously unstable orbit. Yet, polls clearly reveal that shining as it still does in the distance, the moon remains an emotional “part of us”. That is, it does until it finally must be towed away to save Earth and what remains of civilization.
On a far smaller scale, we have the chronicle of a New York apartment hunter in “I Should Have Known Better.” He is a self-professed sucker, who rents a 1400 square foot pad in a prestigious building at a peanut price, only to discover on the first night the reason for the astronomical discount. His domicile stands at the crossroads where beings from different worlds and dimensions can pass from one to the other.
Kudos to former software engineer turned science and tech writer Juliana Rew, Third Flatiron Anthologies’ editor/publisher, who assembled this Keystone collection.
Regardless, overall I found it an overall enjoyable collection of stories that reads quickly.
Three stories in particular completely floated my boat.
First was “The White Picket Fence,” by A.P Sessler. This is a beautiful little piece about love and longing and growing up, and wishing for things that you maybe ought not wish for, and yet, you do. To my taste, it’s a Bradbury-esque piece that satisfied every step of the way.
Brandon Crilley’s “Coding Haven” packs into a few thousand words a deeply complex and thought-provoking story about what it means to be alive, to deal with the ramifications of your position, and even how much control can have over your own life. It’s not a simple or “entertaining” little story. Well worth both a first and a second read.
Which brings me to “Hunt Unrelenting,” by Sierra July, which is a magnificently strange piece set in the clouds of Jupiter. In her introductions, Rew calls this a surrealistic effort, and that is true. This means it might take a little work to get into, but that work is well worth it. This story, and Crilley’s feel like the most ambitious pieces in the anthology to me—and Hunt Unrelenting is the most audacious, which is something I loved about it. For my money, short fiction is often about taking chances. July takes a chance here with a story about life and events that are meaningful in such immense fashions to those involved but happen completely outside the realm of the bigger world around them. She swings for the fences here, and for me the ball is still flying. May it not land for some time.
I’m calling it 5 stars, not because every story hit my hot buttons (19 would be a lot of buttons!), but because these three in particular will stick with me.