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Sunshine
The Armor and Weapons Division has sent Kyung to a remote planet to give their new battle suit a test run. There, she makes a shocking discovery: her own company has been illegally experimenting with a monstrous new genetic weapon - a weapon so deadly that she may not live to warn the world.
- GenresScience Fiction
32 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2012
40 people want to read
About the author
T.C. McCarthy
21 books114 followersDr. Theodore C. McCarthy (“T.C.”) is an award winning and critically acclaimed southern author and technology development strategist. A former CIA weapons expert, T.C. is a recognized authority on the impact of technology on military strategy and is a regular speaker at USSOCOM (US Special Operations Command) and other commands on future warfare topics. Before embarking on a national security career, he earned a PhD in geology and bachelor’s degrees in environmental science and computer science – in addition to being a Fulbright Fellow and Howard Hughes Biomedical Research Fellow – and worked as a patent examiner in complex biotechnology and combinatorial chemistry.
T.C.’s short fiction, both literary and genre, has appeared in Per Contra: The International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas, Story Quarterly, Nature, and multiple anthologies. His debut novels, Germline (the winner of the Compton Crook Award in 2012), and its sequels, Exogene and Chimera, explored current trends in weapons and biotechnology research, applying his insights to construct a near-future, peer-to-peer conflict where infantry combat is forced underground.
T.C.’s short fiction, both literary and genre, has appeared in Per Contra: The International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas, Story Quarterly, Nature, and multiple anthologies. His debut novels, Germline (the winner of the Compton Crook Award in 2012), and its sequels, Exogene and Chimera, explored current trends in weapons and biotechnology research, applying his insights to construct a near-future, peer-to-peer conflict where infantry combat is forced underground.
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July 22, 2012
Kyung has been field testing a developmental combat suit two days longer than corporate wanted, but in her curiosity she became lost, lost on a planet far from Earth. Not only is she in a Chinese hot zone, but she keeps seeing this dog like creature (something her Korean heritage taught her to hate). Searching after this dog creature lands her in lethal danger, and when she discovers the secret behind why this planet would be so covertly coveted, the reason for its attraction may become the very thing that gets her killed.
T.C. has a gift for creating interesting futuristic technologies and threading them in seamlessly so that you are experiencing them instead of learning about them. He also has a knack for torturing his characters in order to see what they are really made of. I'm becoming a big fan of both of these qualities. There is great action, tension bordering on Horror-type extremes, but never without showing how these events reveal the personalities and desires of the characters you're reading about. This story has an interesting relationship between Kyung and her suit's A.I., one that shows how connected one can become to a computer in times of crisis, how human that interaction can become, and, well, I won't spoil anything by saying how it turns out.
My only complaint is that it wasn't long enough. I hope to read more about the technologies and rivalries explored in this story.
T.C. has a gift for creating interesting futuristic technologies and threading them in seamlessly so that you are experiencing them instead of learning about them. He also has a knack for torturing his characters in order to see what they are really made of. I'm becoming a big fan of both of these qualities. There is great action, tension bordering on Horror-type extremes, but never without showing how these events reveal the personalities and desires of the characters you're reading about. This story has an interesting relationship between Kyung and her suit's A.I., one that shows how connected one can become to a computer in times of crisis, how human that interaction can become, and, well, I won't spoil anything by saying how it turns out.
My only complaint is that it wasn't long enough. I hope to read more about the technologies and rivalries explored in this story.
January 8, 2017
Great story, we get right into the action and the mystery. It was too short though. As soon as I got into the story it felt like it was over. Loved the concept.
August 4, 2012
Kyung is not a soldier, she just develops and tests their equipment, but an environment test she volunteered for is turning out to be more than she bargained for. The decision to track down a dog-like creature has kept Kyung two days longer than planned and her curiosity might just be the death of her. Experimental secrets cannot be contained; especially when they're alive.
Brilliantly suspenseful (though part of the suspense could be attributed to frequent interruptions while reading), I was on the edge of my seat throughout. I've been looking for some good, action SciFi recently and Sunshine was thee perfect story to break my fast. It wasn't until I finished his gripping short that I found out Sunshine is set in the same world as The Subterrene Wars: a trilogy set on future earth. Not having set eyes on McCarthy's world before, I felt immediately at home. This was a great introduction, even if it was set mid-storyline, and I'm seriously edging towards picking up a copy of Germline; Subterrene Wars Book One.
Brilliantly suspenseful (though part of the suspense could be attributed to frequent interruptions while reading), I was on the edge of my seat throughout. I've been looking for some good, action SciFi recently and Sunshine was thee perfect story to break my fast. It wasn't until I finished his gripping short that I found out Sunshine is set in the same world as The Subterrene Wars: a trilogy set on future earth. Not having set eyes on McCarthy's world before, I felt immediately at home. This was a great introduction, even if it was set mid-storyline, and I'm seriously edging towards picking up a copy of Germline; Subterrene Wars Book One.
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