Ansible: Season One

by Stant Litore

Traveling across space and time to make first contact, explorers discover a terrible predator. Now only a band of time travelers stand between humanity and the long dark. FROM THE REVIEWS FOR STANT LITORE'S ANSIBLE "Litore's elegant prose seeps into the soul, stoking our fears of dark labyrinths and the loss of self, of having our direst warnings passed off as madness in a cruel and ignorant world. A chilling and masterful tale." - Allison M. Dickson, author of Strings "Stant Litore truly weaves a spellbinding story that leaves the reader feeling vulnerable. It is impossible not to become drawn into the world that Stant created..." - Heather Maloney, examiner.com "Stant Litore's writing is so good and yet so hard to describe. He can be both an angel and a devil all in one. He's an angel for writing such wonderful and thought-provoking stories, and a devil for using those stories to make you want to curl up into a ball and hide." - Must Read Faster "With the first stories in the Ansible series, he has pulled off an incredible feat, rendering individual tales that sing the ache of desolation in a register entirely their own while simultaneously building a central premise and an accompanying world that’s utterly original, gorgeously pained, and potentially inexhaustible." - Jason Kirk, author of Reverb and The Other Whites in South Africa

103 pages, Paperback

Published April 10, 2015

About the author

Stant Litore is the author of Ansible, The Running of the Tyrannosaurs, The Zombie Bible, and Dante’s Heart. Besides science fiction and fantasy, he has written the writers’ toolkits Write Worlds Your Readers Won’t Forget and Write Characters Your Readers Won’t Forget, as well as Lives of Unstoppable Hope and Lives of Unforgetting, and has been featured in Jeff Vandermeer’s Wonderbook: An Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction. He has served as a developmental editor for Westmarch Publishing and holds a Ph.D. in English. He lives in Aurora, Colorado with his wife and three children and is currently at work on his next novel.

Reviews

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting book of short stories involving the exploration of distant alien worlds by a person who uses a form of mind projection to take over a remote being from an alien group of beings, the stories being reports of what they experience there. Not bad! Author lives just a few miles from me. May look into more of his work!

[Daniel Yellow · Rating 3 out of 5]

5/10

Cool main idea with some extra cool ideas but I'm not sure about the execution. I think I either need interesting characters or these concepts to go somewhere. Maybe because it's season one it's all establishing? Even then the second and third story feels like it established nothing that the first one didn't establish even better, I even forgot one of them existed.

[Ave Mets]

Interesting attempt to think like other kinds of being (trees, or some fantastic ones).

[Ginny · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was weird and fraught and pretty dark in the end, but compelling and creative too. The interconnected stories of the Ansible travelers--sending their minds across time and space to inhabit beings on distant planets--all came to haunting and lonely ends, but the worlds they discovered were crazy creepy cool. Definitely going to check out "Season Two."