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Parallel Worlds: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Parallel Worlds collects volumes 1-3 of the Parallel Worlds collection by science fiction and fantasy author Addison Smith. Many of the works within have previously appeared in a series of publications. Each volume of Parallel Worlds collects five stories of science fiction and fantasy interspersed with tiny drabbles - stories themselves in small, 100-word bites. Within these pages you will find spaceships and cyberpunk, demons and dragons. Inside you will
1. Alien Taxidermy and Love Have Four Things in Common
2. A Taste for Pine
3. Hard Memory
4. Tell Me a Story, Teasy
5. Reflection
6. From Airlock to Eternity
7. Fancy and Fish Hearts
8. For Fear of the Long Night
9. I Grow
10 . Sounds for Crustaceans
11. Masters of the Day
12. Memory and Steel
13. The Visitor
14. Hope for Enthos
15. Mittens and the Death Moth
16. The Psychic Fish Hates You
17. The Hikaru Defense Project
18. The Legend of Johnny C
19. To the Water Goes My Pain
20. A Wet and Stinking Cavern
21. Mycelium Dreams
22. An Ocean of Souls
23. To Fly on Gentle Wings
24. For Our First Date I Dressed In Red
25. Bone and Acid and Rushing Waves
26. You Can Let Me In
27. A Mark Deeper Than Flesh
1. Alien Taxidermy and Love Have Four Things in Common
2. A Taste for Pine
3. Hard Memory
4. Tell Me a Story, Teasy
5. Reflection
6. From Airlock to Eternity
7. Fancy and Fish Hearts
8. For Fear of the Long Night
9. I Grow
10 . Sounds for Crustaceans
11. Masters of the Day
12. Memory and Steel
13. The Visitor
14. Hope for Enthos
15. Mittens and the Death Moth
16. The Psychic Fish Hates You
17. The Hikaru Defense Project
18. The Legend of Johnny C
19. To the Water Goes My Pain
20. A Wet and Stinking Cavern
21. Mycelium Dreams
22. An Ocean of Souls
23. To Fly on Gentle Wings
24. For Our First Date I Dressed In Red
25. Bone and Acid and Rushing Waves
26. You Can Let Me In
27. A Mark Deeper Than Flesh
104 pages, Paperback
Published April 29, 2023
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March 29, 2024
Addison Smith’s Parallel Worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories, flash fiction, and drabbles. Though some common themes emerge amongst the stories, there’s also a great amount of variety, ensuring that most readers will find stories they thoroughly enjoy within this collection.
Of the stories included here, I particularly enjoyed “Fancy and Fish Hearts,” which is a heart-rending tale of a couple growing apart, as reflected in a living fish one of them has crafted. This is one of several themes that runs throughout multiple stories, dealing with couples navigating change, often for the worse. Aquatic life, too, is a theme in several of the stories, and one that is dear to my own heart. I also enjoyed the drabbles, which I know is a difficult form to master, but Smith does a fantastic job in “The Hikaru Defense Project,” with shades of a post-apocalyptic world in which a consciousness is revived to fight again and again. In just 100 words, this story gives backstory and intense pathos. I also loved “Mittens and the Death Moth,” which rang all too true as a cat owner.
Whether you prefer your stories quick and bite-sized or slightly longer, you’re sure to find something you like in Parallel Worlds, and it’s likely you’ll find more than one that resonates with you!
Of the stories included here, I particularly enjoyed “Fancy and Fish Hearts,” which is a heart-rending tale of a couple growing apart, as reflected in a living fish one of them has crafted. This is one of several themes that runs throughout multiple stories, dealing with couples navigating change, often for the worse. Aquatic life, too, is a theme in several of the stories, and one that is dear to my own heart. I also enjoyed the drabbles, which I know is a difficult form to master, but Smith does a fantastic job in “The Hikaru Defense Project,” with shades of a post-apocalyptic world in which a consciousness is revived to fight again and again. In just 100 words, this story gives backstory and intense pathos. I also loved “Mittens and the Death Moth,” which rang all too true as a cat owner.
Whether you prefer your stories quick and bite-sized or slightly longer, you’re sure to find something you like in Parallel Worlds, and it’s likely you’ll find more than one that resonates with you!
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