Publisher: Rhiza Edge.
Release Date: March 1st, 2021.
Source: Purchsed.
Category: YA, fantasy and sci-fi short story anthology.
Synopsis from Goodreads:
A handsome clockmaker fixes a broken time machine to help a cursed lady. A young scientist betrays his people to protect an alien species. A girl bonds with her new technological helper and sees in him a personality and a soul. A boy finds his whole life changing when his best friend writes in a mysterious notebook. A crew aboard a settlement spaceship discover that sleeping passengers have gone missing.
Come on a journey of exploration with aliens, spacecrafts, bewildering technology and even ghosts. There’s friendship, strong families and romance. In these seventeen stories humanity is pushed to its limit and forced to question what is most important in life.
Lynne Stringer and RA Stephens bring together a collection of fantasy and science-fiction stories based in worlds that are not quite our own.
Authors include Penny Jaye, Emily Larkin, Janeen Samuel, Stephanie Martin, Catriona McKeown, Rosanne Hawke and many more.
My Thoughts:
I really enjoyed this collection of sci-fi stories from Australian authors.
It was a strong collection with each story well written.
Some authors I had heard of, some I hadn’t, so it was nice to be introduced to new authors I am looking forward to reading more of.
I don’t read a lot of sci-fi, but this collection reminded me how much I do like it, and made me want to read more if it.
Though I enjoyed all the stories, ‘Ebenezer’s cafe’, ‘Over and Out’, and ‘Arrogance is Death’, were some of my favourites. I liked the humor in ‘The Rocksway Flight’.
‘Romano’s’ surprised me the most. I don’t generally like ghost stories, but this one was quite touching.
Although this is a collection of young adult stories, I believe adults will enjoy this too. If you enjoy fantasy and sci-fi stories, this is a collection not to be missed.
Rhiza edge has more short story anthologies and I am looking forward to reading them.
Content warning:
It was clean with nothing too violet, and no sexual content.
The story ‘Endymion’ had the word ‘hell’ in it a few times. And ‘Over and Out’ had the A-word twice. No other stories had swearing.