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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
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!
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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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.