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Heir Apparent: Digital Science Fiction Anthology
Heir Apparent - Digital Science Fiction Anthology - Book 4, is an anthology of ten original science fiction short stories from professional writers. We are pleased to present in our fourth anthology an exciting collection of new stories from established authors. Our fourth edition of the Digital Science Fiction anthology series serves up a smorgasbord of terrific stories; however, each story has its own unique version of an heir, and we look forward to hearing from our readers on whether those heirs truly do represent a passing down of some type of human bond or connection. Heir Apparent includes 10 first-time-published science fiction short stories by: - Robert Lowell Russell - Floaters - Brandon Nolta - Persistence of Memory - George Walker - To Titan on the Daily - Paul Cook - Ghostbook - Eric James Stone - A Lincoln in Time - Cassandra Rose Clarke - Hooked - Ed Greenwood - My Silent Slayer - Ronald D. Ferguson - Philosophy - Alex Kane - In the Arms of Lachiga - Martin L. Shoemaker - Father-Daughter Outing
- GenresScience Fiction
156 pages, Paperback
First published November 10, 2011
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January 19, 2022
Floaters - Robert Lowell Russell
A prisoner transfer goes awry. Time for a brute force investigation.
Meh
Persistence of Memory - Brandon Nolta
In this army of clones, each new generation remembers everything from the previous, but some of them prefer that they didn't.
Ok
To Titan on the Daily - George Walker
An investigator is on the trail of The Smartest Man. This story is like someone imitating PKD as if he had written Flowers for Algernon as a short story. The scene changes are very abrupt, but not for stylistic effect
Meh
Ghostbook - Paul Cook
His deceased mother has sent him a friend request. He accepts. Then the messages begin...
Meh
A Lincoln in Time - Eric James Stone
In my timeline Lincoln was assassinated! In mine he wasn't!
Ok
Hooked - Cassandra Rose Clarke
Fortune magazine interviews a sentient automaton who in 1925 illegally hooked itself into Wall Street trading by telegraph and became wealthy and well-known.
Meh
My Silent Slayer - Ed Greenwood
A continuation of "Biting a Dead Man’s Hand" from #1.
Meh
Philosophy - Ronald D. Ferguson
Two soldiers fighting disturbingly human Bug-Eyed Monsters begin wondering whether they're the baddies and what war is good for.
Enjoyable
In the Arms of Lachiga - Alex J. Kane
A hacker is given a choice. Implant false memories into his best friend or die.
Ok
Father-Daughter Outing - Martin L. Shoemaker
A fourteen year girl old does a sitcom routine while trying to keep her barely conscious father alive outside a lunar colony. The cover image is probably about this story.
Blah
A prisoner transfer goes awry. Time for a brute force investigation.
Meh
Persistence of Memory - Brandon Nolta
In this army of clones, each new generation remembers everything from the previous, but some of them prefer that they didn't.
Ok
To Titan on the Daily - George Walker
An investigator is on the trail of The Smartest Man. This story is like someone imitating PKD as if he had written Flowers for Algernon as a short story. The scene changes are very abrupt, but not for stylistic effect
Meh
Ghostbook - Paul Cook
His deceased mother has sent him a friend request. He accepts. Then the messages begin...
Meh
A Lincoln in Time - Eric James Stone
In my timeline Lincoln was assassinated! In mine he wasn't!
Ok
Hooked - Cassandra Rose Clarke
Fortune magazine interviews a sentient automaton who in 1925 illegally hooked itself into Wall Street trading by telegraph and became wealthy and well-known.
Meh
My Silent Slayer - Ed Greenwood
A continuation of "Biting a Dead Man’s Hand" from #1.
Meh
Philosophy - Ronald D. Ferguson
Two soldiers fighting disturbingly human Bug-Eyed Monsters begin wondering whether they're the baddies and what war is good for.
Enjoyable
In the Arms of Lachiga - Alex J. Kane
A hacker is given a choice. Implant false memories into his best friend or die.
Ok
Father-Daughter Outing - Martin L. Shoemaker
A fourteen year girl old does a sitcom routine while trying to keep her barely conscious father alive outside a lunar colony. The cover image is probably about this story.
Blah
August 13, 2016
Great read! Worth the stars!
Discovering this anthology was like finding priceless treasure! Excellently written short stories, professionally edited and all true to the focus - a close examination of the gifts we leave behind whether by design or mishap,and received willingly or not!
The stories are not like any others I have read and it's hard explaining exactly HOW! Instead of slick, streamlined futurescapes so often found in this genre, the short stories are more like modern messy human life! They're all set in situations and circumstances anyone could relate to today, and minus some machines and other techno goodies, the stories could easily bre about everyday people acting just like ... everyday people! However, there is just enough futuristic dazzle to set the characters apart from their 2016 equals. The emotional baggage and personal quandaries aren't anything new or unexplored but these writers delve deeper, making humans less opaque.
Discovering this anthology was like finding priceless treasure! Excellently written short stories, professionally edited and all true to the focus - a close examination of the gifts we leave behind whether by design or mishap,and received willingly or not!
The stories are not like any others I have read and it's hard explaining exactly HOW! Instead of slick, streamlined futurescapes so often found in this genre, the short stories are more like modern messy human life! They're all set in situations and circumstances anyone could relate to today, and minus some machines and other techno goodies, the stories could easily bre about everyday people acting just like ... everyday people! However, there is just enough futuristic dazzle to set the characters apart from their 2016 equals. The emotional baggage and personal quandaries aren't anything new or unexplored but these writers delve deeper, making humans less opaque.
February 9, 2016
Short and really good. this quarterly series seems to just get better. If you like science fiction and short stories, you should really check this out.
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