Georgia On My Mind And Other Places (1995) - Plot & Excerpts
Nice collection of stories, though I primarily bought it for the title piece. Georgia on my Mind has nothing to do with the US state, nor of the Eastern European country, but with the small British Island off the coast of South America. This story covers the discovery of letters and remaining parts of a working Babbage Difference Engine in a farm house in New Zealand. I only discovered recently that this was in fact based on a true event. However, the fictional story relays the account of a couple who have been exiled from England as it is implied that they're half-brother and sister. But in addition to making a working Engine, they've also made contact with an non-human intelligent race. The last letter in the collection makes reference to their immanent departure for the South Georgia Island.Some very well written stories. I'll have to track down some more of Sheffield's work.
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