Distant Earths: Science Fiction & Fantasy
By Addison SmithPublisher Description
Distant Earths transports the reader to strange realities with 27 stories of sentience, survival, and worlds unknown. Inside this volume you will find ocean fantasies and starship horrors, stories of deep longing and unbearable hope.
In Spill-Free and Sparkling, a shipboard cleaning system deals with a dire situation while unaware of the realities facing the crew, all in the name of perfect cleanliness.
In A Golem Made of You, our protagonist encounters failure, disgust, and desire as a parasite overtakes his ship, leading him to question his humanity and the unbearable burden of loneliness.
In Aspiration Extermination, we view a robot apocalypse through the optics of the mundane and the workers who clear the earth of humanity, despite the tedium of the task.
The stories in this collection are all interspersed with tiny drabbles - stories themselves in small, 100-word snippets.
Inside you will find:
Spill-Free and Sparkling
Rituals Upheld
His Monstrous Cloaca
Choose Your Side
A Golem Made of You
Personal Apocalypse
By Moonlight Guided
Experience.vnz
Containment
A Heartbeat Resonates Through Hull and Bone
The Devil's in the Details
A Noble Quest
Aspiration Extermination
Shipminds and Angels Bound
My Ship to the Depths
I Am Meat
The Locked Prophet
Tide Pool Leavings
The Oathtaker, Servant of Draghtai the Undying
Through Bonded Flesh
A Mind Not My Own
A Perfect Recreation
Not Good Enough
And One Pulsing Egg
With Hands Unstilled
Playtime Aboard the Aegis
For You I Return
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About Addison Smith
Addison Smith (he/him) is an amorphous being constructed of suspended cold brew and kombucha. His mind is a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast formed around a brainstem of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus. He's doing his best, though. His fiction has appeared in dozens of publications including Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and Daily Science Fiction. Addison is a member of the Codex Writers Group and you can find him on Bluesky @addisoncs.bsky.social.
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