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An edge of your seat hard SF adventure as colonists on a new world find that nothing is what they expected and that travelling to a distant star is far more dangerous than they’d ever imagined...in Allen Steele's Sanctuary.
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“I will say that I have never read anything by Allen Steele. I only read this short story, because it popped up in my regular Tor.com emails and I gave it an instant read.
The story structure built on operational status reports works very well. The shift in the stye due to the major plot point was also well done. The story itself felt like something that could easily be produced by Black Mirror etc. Its a solid story.
Two points of note:
For a short story displayed from a technical/military-esque viewpoint, I literally laughed out loud when i read..
"The idea of a plastic breathing tube ((spoiler removed)) while still in someone's esophagus makes me shiver."
That makes me shiver too.. why are they trying to help someone breath by placing the tube in the esophagus that leads only to the stomach? (lol) I'm pretty sure you'll wanna put that tube in the trachea.
And my last point (and this is a spoiler!! do not read further unless you have read the story)..
I was expecting the approaching ships to have 'indigenous people' on it who would turn out to be other space-faring colonist that were also marooned by the Rot. Alas, the story ended before first contact.
I will be making the effort to find and read some more of Mr. Steele's work. :) But once again, Tor.com has provided access to another quality story.”
About Allen Steele
Allen Steele became a full-time science fiction writer in 1988, following publication of his first short story, "Live From The Mars Hotel". Since then he has become a prolific author of novels, short stories, and essays, with his work translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide. His novels include Orbital Decay, Clarke County, Space, Lunar Descent, Labyrinth of Night, The Jericho Iteration, The Tranquility Alternative, A King of Infinite Space, Oceanspace, Chronospace, the Coyote Trilogy, the Coyote Chronicles, Spindrift, Galaxy Blues, Hex, Apollo's Outcast, V-S Day, and Arkwright. He has also published several collections of short fiction: Rude Astronauts, All-American Alien Boy, Sex and Violence in Zero-G, American Beauty, The Last Science Fiction Writer, and Tales of Time and Space. His work has appeared in most major US SF magazines, including Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog, and Fantasy & Science Fiction, as well as in dozens of anthologies. He won the Hugo Award for novellas "The Death Of Captain Future" and "`...Where Angels Fear to Tread'", and for "The Emperor of Mars" Steele was First Runner-Up for the 1990 John W. Campbell Award, received the Donald A. Wollheim Award in 1993, and the Phoenix Award in 2002. In 2013, he received the Robert A. Heinlein Award in recognition of his long career in writing space fiction. Steele is a former member of both the Board of Directors and the Board of Advisors for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and is also a former advisor for the Space Frontier Foundation. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife Linda and their dogs.
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