In the last few years, Egan has become a frequent contributor to Interzone and Asimov's Science Fiction, and has made sales as well to Pulphouse, Analog, Aurealis, Eidolon, and elsewhere. Several of his stories have appeared in various best-of-the-year series, including this one; in fact, he plac...
Daniel Cliff gestured at the serving dish and the cover irised from opaque to transparent. “It’s fresh, I promise you. My chef had it flown in from Iran this morning.”“No thank you.” Julie Dehghani touched a napkin to her lips then laid it on her plate with a gesture of finality. The dining room ...
Yann insisted. “I just need some help to describe it in more palatable terms, so I can sell it to the others.”Rasmah said, “It's not a vehicle. It's software. And it's software for a nonexistent computer.”Yann shook his head. “That's just the mathematical formalism I've used. It's the best way to...
‘I can’t believe I let you drag me down here. Half these people spent the last thirty years trying to get America to bomb their own country, just so they could go back and turn it into their own cosy little kleptocracy.’ ‘That’s unfair!’ her mother replied. ‘A quarter of them at most. Anyway, th...
Agata couldn’t tear her gaze away from the stitches that criss-crossed Serena’s torso, pulling the skin tight over the wound where a quarter of her flesh had assumed a life of its own and torn itself free. But at least her campaign of pre-maternal gorging had paid off: she’d managed to keep all f...