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Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories

By Tobias S. Buckell
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories by Tobias S. Buckell digital book - Fable

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Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories is Tobias S. Buckell's seventh short fiction collection and is comprised of 15 stories, several of which are original to the collection or were previously only available through his Patreon.

This collection ranges from galactic adventures to intimate explorations of humanity—sometimes in the same story—rich with a sense of wonder and deft storytelling.

This collection includes the following stories:
Io, Robot
A Jar of Goodwill
Pale Blue Memories
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance
The Might Slinger
Sunset
Chi's Cargo
Destination Day Blues
The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex
Five Point Three Milligrams
By the Warmth of Their Calculus
DW
The Very Last Curator of What Little Remains of the Western World
A Girl and Her Rover
The Longest Distance

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“This one was well written but I did not love it. I could see that the author is a fan of Sci-Fi and it shows. I did not read this one as fast as others but the payoff was worth it. A really good sci-fi collection. The Longest Distance was so bittersweet and probably my favorite. This is for the most intense of Sci-Fi readers. Very, Very good collection.”
“This is an entertaining short-story about a future where biological human beings oppose the existence and humanity of hard-shell human who transferred their conscience into machines, allowing their brains to be replicated. Entertaining, but it did not tickled my brain. I also felt that the tones were quite inconsistent.”

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