Two Stories: "Nahiku West" & "Nightside on Callisto" - Softcover

Two science fiction stories by Nebula-award-winning author Linda Nagata:In the nanotech-drenched future of "Nahiku West" anything is possible, but not everything is allowed. Police officer Zeke Choy is charged with enforcing molecular law—but his first task is to determine if a crime has taken place. "Nahiku West" is a Nanotech Succession story, set in the same world as the award-winning novel The Bohr Maker. It was runner-up for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. (~9,000 words)In “Nightside On Callisto” four aging explorers accept a hazardous mission to Jupiter’s airless moon, a place of unimaginable cold and lethal radiation—but Callisto proves less dangerous than the enemy they brought with them. (~6,400 words)Both stories were selected for best-of-the-year anthologies.

Linda Nagata is the author of multiple novels and short stories including The Bohr Maker, winner of the Locus Award for best first novel, and the novella “Goddesses,” the first online publication to receive a Nebula award. Though best known for science fiction, she writes fantasy too, exemplified by her “scoundrel lit” series Stories of the Puzzle Lands. Her newest science fiction novel is The Red: First Light, published under her own imprint, Mythic Island Press LLC. She lives with her husband in their long-time home on the island of Maui.