You Came to the Tower Podcast

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| Issue 4

| October 9, 2019

Podcast of “You Came to the Tower” by Shaenon K. Garitty
Narrated by Wulf Moon
Cover art by Tomasz Maronski
Music track sampled from “Wrapped in Dreams” by Frankum and Frankumjay, used under a Creative Commons license.

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Issue 4

An “alien invasion” issue featuring 50,000 words of fiction from the United Kingdom, Russia, USA, China, Sweden, and Italy.

Foreword – Issue 4 Introduction | Read now

Alex Shvartsman

The fall issue of Future Science Fiction Digest is packed with fifty thousand words of fiction from the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, China, Sweden, and Italy. The primary theme for this issue is “Alien Invasion.” While this theme may evoke well-worn tropes from military science fiction novels, games, and movies, I thought there were quite a few novel and interesting ways to approach the subject, and our writers didn’t disappoint....

They Are Coming Fiction | Read now

Paul R. Hardy

THEY ARE COMING Teshana Wright Gizmodo.com Darlene McKinnon saw aliens long before the rest of us did. Fifteen years ago she was serving as a helicopter mechanic at Nellis AFB, making regular flights back and forth to the Creech UAV base....

The Building Atop the Hill Fiction | Read now

Alexander Bachilo

Goshka fell asleep on the tram and refused to wake up when we reached our stop. Marina had to carry him as she squeezed through the crowd on the packed tram toward the exit. I struggled to keep up, wrangling my bag and a pair of suitcases....

A Typical Tale of Bloodlust and Conquest Fiction | Read now

Mike Resnick

So, after my grandfather conquered Belloq IV, and my father subjugated the entire Karolian Empire, it was my turn. Of course, I’d known it for years. You don’t grow up as the eldest male in the bloodiest family in an entire galactic sector and not have some notion of what the future holds for you....

You Came to the Tower Fiction | Read now

Shaenon K. Garrity

The Third Incubation of Peacocks, afternoon. I write this from a lily pad floating on the North Pole. I came here to ponder mushrooms; I find it helpful to think about dark things in bright places. Kaida has scolded me for wading in the algae pools, and I understand how important they are to our oxygen cycle....

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Shaenon K. Garrity, Wulf Moon

Podcast of “You Came to the Tower” by Shaenon K. GarittyNarrated by Wulf MoonCover art by Tomasz MaronskiMusic track sampled from “Wrapped in Dreams” by Frankum and Frankumjay, used under a Creative Commons license....

Through the Fog, a Distant Land Appears Fiction | Read now

Wanxiang Fengnian

Yellow is the breath of the dying. On the seventh day after Dandan drank the paraquat—a pesticide that had recently become tragically popular for suicide attempts, as well as the cause of too many accidental ingestions by children—her skin grew sallow and her breathing grew rapid and weak....

Yi Fiction | Read now

Oskar Källner

The moon shone green below us. It wasn’t far now. I really ought to have prepared for insertion, but I had difficulty tearing myself away from that powerful vista. There was something captivating about the unending forests. At the same time, I was aware of what awaited us there....

The Last Trial Fiction | Read now

Stephen S. Power

For the third trial, AmaBaba flies me and John to their Seattle headquarters. That way, he and their boxing computer will have the same lag between conducting a virtual maneuver and a bot actually performing it. I suppose they could have brought the computer and us to the warehouse, where the lag would be minimized, but AmaBaba probably wants to maintain a home field advantage—as well as not go all the way to Bessemer, Alabama....

The Messiah of the Thirteenth Colony Fiction | Read now

Davide Camparsi

“Blessed are the lazy,” said Joseph Synczlowieczy, the so-called messiah of the Thirteenth Colony, “because they don’t fight wars, they love the idleness of reading, and indolence feeds the ingenuity necessary to preserve it.” Somebody laughed from the aisles, but others hung around to listen to him willingly, rolled up like doughnuts on their gravity-controlled gurneys in the rehabilitation ward....

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About Shaenon K. Garrity

Shaenon K. Garrity is a cartoonist best known for the webcomics Narbonic and Skin Horse. Her prose fiction has appeared in publications including Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Escape Pod, Drabblecast, and the Unidentified Funny Objects anthologies. Her most recent book is The Zombie Gnome Defense Guide, written with Andrew Farago and Bryan Heemskerk. She lives in Berkeley with a cat, a man and a boy.

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About Wulf Moon

Wulf Moon is an Olympic Peninsula writer, artist, and narrator. Moon wrote his first hard SF story when he was fifteen. It won the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards–the same contest that first discovered Stephen King, Peter S. Beagle, John Updike, and a host of iconic names in the Arts. It became his first pro sale in Science World.

His story “Seventh Heaven” was published in Pocket Books’ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds II. A Borg love story. What could be sweeter? His conquistador fantasy story “War Dog” was published by Third Flatiron. It won the Critters Annual Readers’ Poll award for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story of 2018. Moon recently won the international Writers of the Future Contest. His story “Super-Duper Moon Girl and the Amazing Moon Dawdler” first appeared in Writers of the Future, Volume 35.

Moon is an approved narrator for Apex Publications, PodCastle, and Escape Pod, and has narrated numerous episodes for Gallery of Curiosities and Third Flatiron. He is podcast director for Future Science Fiction Digest. Enjoy more of his work by visiting www.driftweave.com.

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