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Detective Inspector Chen #0.1
Necrochip
“Sure, you can sleep with me,” she said, with a small, cool smile. “But only after I’m dead.”A thrilling short story set in Singapore Three, the home of Inspector Chen.
24 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 12, 2011
About the author
Liz Williams
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Liz Williams is a British science fiction writer. Her first novel, The Ghost Sister was published in 2001. Both this novel and her next, Empire of Bones (2002) were nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.[1] She is also the author of the Inspector Chen series.
She is the daughter of a stage magician and a Gothic novelist. She holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science from Cambridge. She has had short stories published in Asimov's, Interzone, The Third Alternative and Visionary Tongue. From the mid-nineties until 2000, she lived and worked in Kazakhstan.[2] Her experiences there are reflected in her 2003 novel Nine Layers of Sky. Her novels have been published in the US and the UK, while her third novel The Poison Master (2003) has been translated into Dutch.
Series:
* Detective Inspector Chen
* Darkland
Liz Williams is a British science fiction writer. Her first novel, The Ghost Sister was published in 2001. Both this novel and her next, Empire of Bones (2002) were nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.[1] She is also the author of the Inspector Chen series.
She is the daughter of a stage magician and a Gothic novelist. She holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science from Cambridge. She has had short stories published in Asimov's, Interzone, The Third Alternative and Visionary Tongue. From the mid-nineties until 2000, she lived and worked in Kazakhstan.[2] Her experiences there are reflected in her 2003 novel Nine Layers of Sky. Her novels have been published in the US and the UK, while her third novel The Poison Master (2003) has been translated into Dutch.
Series:
* Detective Inspector Chen
* Darkland
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December 19, 2023
Despite the short length of this story, the sense of place is rich and well described. A futuristic dystopian style Singapore. Think something akin to the world portrayed in The Fifth Element perhaps, where advances in science and technology allow for genetically modified guard dogs and such things as a Necrochip.
Yes, that is what you may suspect. Hence the shelving of taboo for this story. Nothing overtly taboo occurs, but the concept is discussed and may put off some readers.
I am intrigued enough by this tiny tidbit that I will explore other stories in this world by this author. I hope a longer piece will be just as rich and colourful.
Yes, that is what you may suspect. Hence the shelving of taboo for this story. Nothing overtly taboo occurs, but the concept is discussed and may put off some readers.
I am intrigued enough by this tiny tidbit that I will explore other stories in this world by this author. I hope a longer piece will be just as rich and colourful.
May 13, 2013
Fantasy/SF hybrid short story set in the stews of Singapore. An ex pat encounters a beautiful stranger who offers prepaid sex on her corpse. She turns put to be not as human as she looks. Amusing, for all that it's sort of louche and gory.
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