This novella came out long before the Twinmaker novels, and remains one of my favourites from the d-mat universe. Enjoy! The moment Rod Hallows opened his eyes, he knew something had gone wrong. He could feel it—even if, for the moment, he could see nothing. His first instinct was to call for help, but the […]
This is a very early d-mat story, written before the world of Twinmaker existed. I hope you enjoy it! “I hate this fucking town,” my sister said on the day she disappeared. “I hate it almost as much as I hate you, you little shit.” I can remember her words clearly—as though she is saying […]
Here’s a story that predates the entire Twinmaker experiment, set far in the future of the novels. Enjoy! On a far-flung moonlet, a rare device flickered into life. Hradek Zanshin, High Ethnarch of the Ataman Theocracy, stepped out of the reconstruction chamber and took a deep breath. To look at, he wasn’t much: shortish; dark […]
This story, although not overtly a Twinmaker story, was definitely written with this future in mind. It’s also my first from Daily SF, and my ninety-seventh in print. Here’s the opening: “Once upon a time, people used to fly about in Air-O-Planes. One day the people driving the Air-O-Plane fell asleep, and it crashed into […]