Ray Nayler has yet published, “
A Rocket for Dimitrios“. This is another Sylvia Aldstatt story, set in an alternate history where the course of WWII was radically changed by the US discovery of an alien spacecraft and their adoption of its technology. One of the strangest pieces of alien tech allows Sylvia to experience the memories of a recently dead person – but those memories are inconsistent and constantly decaying. Sylvia and her handler are in Turkey, a US ally but not necessarily a reliable one, and she is assigned to delve into the memories of Dimitrios Makropoulus, a shady character whose dealings finally caught up with him. His latest project was trying to sell information about the supposed location of another alien ship – something the US wants kept hidden to maintain their advantages. Turkey (and other polities) would desperately like access to the tech, and they may be ready to break their relationship with the US. Sylvia herself has serious doubts about th