Past the Borders: Collected Science Fiction Review
Past the Borders: Collected Science Fiction Overview
In Past the Borders, the first science fiction collection by Christopher Ruz, six pieces of speculative fiction explore the boundaries of space opera, cyberpunk, and far-future body horror.
In What You Bring Back, a young man struggles with his father's slow descent into dementia. But is his father really suffering from Alzheimer's, or is something more sinister at work... a disease that doesn't just threaten one man, but has the potential to destroy the entire world?
In Long Way Home, an engineer posted to a distant mining colony watches his friends swallowed up one by one by yawning crevasses and acid storms, and discovers that there might be something terrible and beautiful lurking beneath the planet's crust.
In Eight Ways From Tomorrow, extraterrestrial scientists return to Earth for the first time in centuries to watch the progress of mankind. Will their simple children have evolved into a species they can be proud of? Or did they leave their pet planet alone for too long?
In They Trade In Eyes, electronic retinas are the new upgrade of choice for schoolchildren and businessmen alike. Memories are not only recorded directly into the eye, but hot-swappable, and a street-culture forms around the bootlegging and exchanging of pre-used retinas. The market is growing, and where there's a market, there's a killing to be made...
And in The Last Broadcast, a starship packed tight with snap-frozen colonists spirals towards Epsilon Eridani. But Barry, the semi-sentient AI set to guard the human cargo, is beginning to question the nature of his thousand-year mission. He's growing bored, and idle hands are the devil's playthings...
Past the Borders is an eclectic, 11,000 word science fiction collection in the style of Alfred Bester and Philip K Dick. Past the Borders is also included in its entirety in Future Tides, a .99, 18 story collection by Christopher Ruz, comprising of all his work published between 2007 and 2011.
Past the Borders contains:
What You Bring Back
Long Way Home
Eight Ways From Tomorrow
They Trade In Eyes
The Aliens Came Alphabetically
The Last Broadcast
Past the Borders: Collected Science Fiction Specifications
In Past the Borders, the first science fiction collection by Christopher Ruz, six pieces of speculative fiction explore the boundaries of space opera, cyberpunk, and far-future body horror.
In What You Bring Back, a young man struggles with his father's slow descent into dementia. But is his father really suffering from Alzheimer's, or is something more sinister at work... a disease that doesn't just threaten one man, but has the potential to destroy the entire world?
In Long Way Home, an engineer posted to a distant mining colony watches his friends swallowed up one by one by yawning crevasses and acid storms, and discovers that there might be something terrible and beautiful lurking beneath the planet's crust.
In Eight Ways From Tomorrow, extraterrestrial scientists return to Earth for the first time in centuries to watch the progress of mankind. Will their simple children have evolved into a species they can be proud of? Or did they leave their pet planet alone for too long?
In They Trade In Eyes, electronic retinas are the new upgrade of choice for schoolchildren and businessmen alike. Memories are not only recorded directly into the eye, but hot-swappable, and a street-culture forms around the bootlegging and exchanging of pre-used retinas. The market is growing, and where there's a market, there's a killing to be made...
And in The Last Broadcast, a starship packed tight with snap-frozen colonists spirals towards Epsilon Eridani. But Barry, the semi-sentient AI set to guard the human cargo, is beginning to question the nature of his thousand-year mission. He's growing bored, and idle hands are the devil's playthings...
Past the Borders is an eclectic, 11,000 word science fiction collection in the style of Alfred Bester and Philip K Dick. Past the Borders is also included in its entirety in Future Tides, a .99, 18 story collection by Christopher Ruz, comprising of all his work published between 2007 and 2011.
Past the Borders contains:
What You Bring Back
Long Way Home
Eight Ways From Tomorrow
They Trade In Eyes
The Aliens Came Alphabetically
The Last Broadcast
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