A carved figurine of the crucified Christ is found around the neck of a body in the Bay of Naples. Its wounds are in the form of eyes, the iconography of a vanished sect, and inset with a rare substance possessing unusual properties. Two intelligence agents who are also art connoisseurs set out to find its origins, as the threat of war with the outer satellites grows.
If dolphins learn to talk, what makes us think we’ll like what they have to say?
In the course of a North Pacific war between Russia, Japan, and the US, Russian military dolphins begin to communicate with humans. Ilya Shatov, the man who essentially forced them to talk, has to confront the consequences of his actions, a journey that takes him all the way to the orbit of Jupiter.
Peter Ambrose wakes up one morning to a hologram of a dead body on the floor of his bedroom. His TV’s filter picked up the identity of an old friend, someone Peter has not seen since their military service in Moldavia. And here his goal had been to never get involved with any of those guys ever again…
This isn’t just another of those jazz musician/brain surgeon detective novels. It’s also about the symbols with which we define our lives, the burden of old friendship, and gardening.
Agoraclaustrophobia is the fear of being trapped inside an immense space. To the dwellers of Mars’s vast underground cities, with their specific sense of public and private space, their mandated street life, and their political agitation, it’s the basis of life. This takes place in the history of Carve the Sky.
Many species of alien have colonized the solar system, while humans have not yet managed to leave it. Soph Trost is ordered to Venus to find a human reported to have left the system and returned. Venusian intelligence destroys her vessel before she lands. She finds her way across Venus, to Mercury, and out to the asteroids.
A short story collection.