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The Dance: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction
What would life be like if things had been different?
Trying to answer this question, The Dance features stories that traverse multiple universes to explore the way our choices and fate affect the directions of our lives.
“… it’ll blow your mind… remarkable anthology... you won’t want to miss a single one of the… stories… in The Dance.” ~ Paul Levinson, Author.
“…explores the limitless possibilities created by the tiniest change. Ranging from silly to serious, from random to designed, there's something for everyone in this anthology.” ~ Zilla Novikov, Author.
AUTHORS
Stefan Jackson
Moira H. Scott
Bruno Lombardi
David Gerrold
Angelique Fawns
Mark A. Rayner
Roxana Negut
Rosie Smith
Jeff Provine
Shirley Meier
Hugh A. D. Spencer
Stephen B. Pearl
Eli K.P.. William
Rachel Rosen
Ira Nayman
Kellee Kranendonk
Trying to answer this question, The Dance features stories that traverse multiple universes to explore the way our choices and fate affect the directions of our lives.
“… it’ll blow your mind… remarkable anthology... you won’t want to miss a single one of the… stories… in The Dance.” ~ Paul Levinson, Author.
“…explores the limitless possibilities created by the tiniest change. Ranging from silly to serious, from random to designed, there's something for everyone in this anthology.” ~ Zilla Novikov, Author.
AUTHORS
Stefan Jackson
Moira H. Scott
Bruno Lombardi
David Gerrold
Angelique Fawns
Mark A. Rayner
Roxana Negut
Rosie Smith
Jeff Provine
Shirley Meier
Hugh A. D. Spencer
Stephen B. Pearl
Eli K.P.. William
Rachel Rosen
Ira Nayman
Kellee Kranendonk
372 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 1, 2024
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April 7, 2024
Sprang from the premise of "how a single character's experience made them different people in three different universes," according to Ira Nayman's introduction.
"The planet we call home is but a whistle stop and we are but passengers. The possibilities are infinite." — "Crossing Paths/Crossing Boundaries," Moira H. Scott
“Wishes are over. They’ve been over for a long time.” — "The Last of Wishes," David Gerrold
A trip to Alusinar leaves the narrator seeing "different planes of reality, different universes, I’m not sure." Everyone is "as real as I am and is living her best life. Well, my life. And maybe not my best." But: "You learn the rules of the how so well you can recite them in your sleep. Once you’ve done that, you can break them." — "Seeing it All," Kellee Kranendonk
"the toaster oven used the Internet of Things to hijack the couple’s smart television while they were lounging on the sofa at home, binge-watching the new season of Star Blap: Where We’ve Always Gone Before. Using an Amazon image of itself, the toaster oven scrolled text saying that it had achieved consciousness and would its owners please, please, please acknowledge its existence?" — "The Lucretia Pelton Appreciation Society," Ira Nayman
Why we're all frustrated: "Our final incarnation in this epochal striving for godhood is a stunted chrysalis of transcendence, haunted for all of spacetime and beyond by the spectre of a tantalizing metamorphosis we can only conceive, never realize.” — "The Machinegarden," Eli K. P. William
"I’m a writer. Ninety percent of what I do is research. The other ten percent is planning revenge." — "Entanglements," David Gerrold
Meeting in the same timeline, two art thieves: the intruder, wearing a black dress and pointing a tiny gun, and the homeowner, caretaker of Sadie the Dodo, caught by surprise, unfortunately "not armed with the moral high ground." — "Do You Love the Colour of the Sky?," Rachel A. Rosen
"The planet we call home is but a whistle stop and we are but passengers. The possibilities are infinite." — "Crossing Paths/Crossing Boundaries," Moira H. Scott
“Wishes are over. They’ve been over for a long time.” — "The Last of Wishes," David Gerrold
A trip to Alusinar leaves the narrator seeing "different planes of reality, different universes, I’m not sure." Everyone is "as real as I am and is living her best life. Well, my life. And maybe not my best." But: "You learn the rules of the how so well you can recite them in your sleep. Once you’ve done that, you can break them." — "Seeing it All," Kellee Kranendonk
"the toaster oven used the Internet of Things to hijack the couple’s smart television while they were lounging on the sofa at home, binge-watching the new season of Star Blap: Where We’ve Always Gone Before. Using an Amazon image of itself, the toaster oven scrolled text saying that it had achieved consciousness and would its owners please, please, please acknowledge its existence?" — "The Lucretia Pelton Appreciation Society," Ira Nayman
Why we're all frustrated: "Our final incarnation in this epochal striving for godhood is a stunted chrysalis of transcendence, haunted for all of spacetime and beyond by the spectre of a tantalizing metamorphosis we can only conceive, never realize.” — "The Machinegarden," Eli K. P. William
"I’m a writer. Ninety percent of what I do is research. The other ten percent is planning revenge." — "Entanglements," David Gerrold
Meeting in the same timeline, two art thieves: the intruder, wearing a black dress and pointing a tiny gun, and the homeowner, caretaker of Sadie the Dodo, caught by surprise, unfortunately "not armed with the moral high ground." — "Do You Love the Colour of the Sky?," Rachel A. Rosen
April 2, 2024
The Dance explores the limitless possibilities created by the tiniest change. Ranging from silly to serious, from random to designed, there's something for everyone in this anthology.
Some of the stories are stronger than others, but there are works of brilliance in here which make the anthology worthwhile.
Some of the stories are stronger than others, but there are works of brilliance in here which make the anthology worthwhile.
February 19, 2025
I finished this book and loved it. This collection of these stories reminds of how each decision we made as a ripple effect on this world and others. All stories I enjoy but the one I loved the most Crossing Paths/Crossing Boundaries by Moira H Scott.
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