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Readers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror are excited about a new short story anthology, Worlds of Light & Darkness.
“The combining of stories that have been printed by these two publications is genius.” – Booklist, the book review journal of the American Library Association. PITTSBURGH (PRWEB) May 27, 2021 Readers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror are excited about a new short story anthology, Worlds of Light & Darkness, assembled from the best of Pittsburgh’s own DreamForge Magazine and Space & Time Magazine, headquartered in Independence, Missouri. Released May 25th, 2021, the anthology is published by UpRoar Books.
Ehsan Ahmad and Shakil Ahmad are the authors of
Wild Sun: Unbound (February 16, 2021; Uproar Books) and
Wild Sun (2020; Uproar Books). They grew up in New York City as the first-generation American children of immigrants from Pakistan. Ehsan spent his early twenties traveling across four continents to meet the people of countless cultures, while Shakil earned degrees in psychology and social research. In their late twenties, the brothers reunited in Pennsylvania to start a wedding film company. Ehsan also spent those years writing lyrics and playing bass for an alt-rock band, recording three studio albums. In their thirties, they sold the film company and returned to the city of their birth to work for separate tech startups and collaborate together continuously on screenplays and novels. You can visit them at thewildsun.com.
(Tor 978-1-250-17466-6, $25.99, 256pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, Feb 16, 2021)
Near-future thriller/SF novel. Scientist Evelyn Caldwell’s husband is having an affair with her own cloned replica.
Clones don’t seem quite as popular these days as they were back in the 1970s and ’80s, when we were treated on a fairly regular basis to stories about celebrity clones, spare-parts clones, hazardous-duty clones, doppelganger clones, identity-crisis clones, cheap-labor clones, ominous replacement clones, survivalist clones, posthuman clones,
tabula-rasa clones, and, inevitably, murder-mystery clones. Sarah Gailey touches upon that last in some ingenious ways in
The Echo Wife, a solidly written novel that gains more of its strength from the voice and conflicted character of its narrator than from its rather plot-contrived version of cloning technology.