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Andrea Cort #3.5
Unseen Demons: An Andrea Cort Story
EMIL SANDBURG.
Serial killer. His victims were all Catarkhans, specimens of a closed-off sentient race incapable of sensing the great atrocities he committed against them. Prosecuting him by their laws is going to be a problem.
Enter ANDREA CORT.
Misanthrope. Genius. Controversial figure. Aware even as she takes the case that other alien forces intend to use her past against her, and against humanity. Unaware that its implications will change the course of her life…
Presenting the first Andrea Cort adventure, the story that led to the Philip K. Dick Award-Winning novel, Emissaries From the Dead!
Other Andrea Cort stories available from JABberwocky:
With Unclean Hands
The Coward’s Option (and Tasha’s Fail Safe)
Serial killer. His victims were all Catarkhans, specimens of a closed-off sentient race incapable of sensing the great atrocities he committed against them. Prosecuting him by their laws is going to be a problem.
Enter ANDREA CORT.
Misanthrope. Genius. Controversial figure. Aware even as she takes the case that other alien forces intend to use her past against her, and against humanity. Unaware that its implications will change the course of her life…
Presenting the first Andrea Cort adventure, the story that led to the Philip K. Dick Award-Winning novel, Emissaries From the Dead!
Other Andrea Cort stories available from JABberwocky:
With Unclean Hands
The Coward’s Option (and Tasha’s Fail Safe)
- GenresScience Fiction
104 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 15, 2017
About the author
Adam-Troy Castro
236 books170 followersAdam-Troy Castro made his first professional sale to Spy magazine in 1987. Since then, he's published 12 books and almost 80 short stories. Among those stories are "Baby Girl Diamond" (nominated for the Bram Stoker Award) and "The Funeral March of the Marionettes" (nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1998). "The Astronaut from Wyoming," a collaboration with Jerry Oltion, appeared in Analog and was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2000, before winning the Seiun (Japanese Hugo) for best translation in 2008.
His "Of A Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs" was nominated for the 2003 Nebula. His original short story collections include Lost in Booth Nine (published by Silver Salamander Press in 1993), An Alien Darkness and A Desperate Decaying Darkness (published by Wildside Press in 2000), Vossoff and Nimmitz (2002), and Tangled Strings (2003). He is also the author of the Spider-Man novels—Time's Arrow: The Present (written in collaboration with Tom DeFalco), The Gathering of the Sinister Six, Revenge of the Sinister Six, and Secret of the Sinister Six—as well as the nonfiction My Ox Is Broken! The Andrea Cort novels include, Emissaries from the Dead, The Third Claw of God, and a third installment currently in progress, tentatively titled The Fall of the Marionettes.
Castro, who married the divine Judi on 25 December 2002, lives in Florida with his wife and four cats: Maggie, Uma Furman, Meow Farrow, and the latest acquisition, Ralphie, an orphan of 2005's hellacious hurricane season.
His "Of A Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs" was nominated for the 2003 Nebula. His original short story collections include Lost in Booth Nine (published by Silver Salamander Press in 1993), An Alien Darkness and A Desperate Decaying Darkness (published by Wildside Press in 2000), Vossoff and Nimmitz (2002), and Tangled Strings (2003). He is also the author of the Spider-Man novels—Time's Arrow: The Present (written in collaboration with Tom DeFalco), The Gathering of the Sinister Six, Revenge of the Sinister Six, and Secret of the Sinister Six—as well as the nonfiction My Ox Is Broken! The Andrea Cort novels include, Emissaries from the Dead, The Third Claw of God, and a third installment currently in progress, tentatively titled The Fall of the Marionettes.
Castro, who married the divine Judi on 25 December 2002, lives in Florida with his wife and four cats: Maggie, Uma Furman, Meow Farrow, and the latest acquisition, Ralphie, an orphan of 2005's hellacious hurricane season.
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
December 29, 2018
Unseen Demons was a smart, entertaining sci-fi novella. It delves into the question of what constitutes sentience in an interesting way, and I quite liked the protagonist despite her antisocial behaviour. I came accross Adam-Troy Castro in a recent novella published in Analog magazine, and that led me to look for more of his work. Apparently there is a series of Andrea Cort novels, but I can't find them on kindle so don't really have access. Hopefully that will change because this could be a great series.
January 25, 2023
I couldn’t visualize the catarkhans as sentient beings. They’re bugs. It would be like considering spiders or lobsters sentient. Nobody ever went to prison for carving up a lobster. Emil should have been changed with cruelty to animals, given a reasonable fine and some community service. Octopuses are more sentient than catarkhans and we eat them. Octopuses are so smart.
May 2, 2023
Demons and Andrea Cort
Misanthropic Andrea Cort is back in another fine adventure dealing with her complicated past and present while negotiating aliens with plans to manipulate her past and a brutal killer in another deeply satisfying adventure/mystery.
Castro is always an interesting read and his Court series a fine example of his not inconsiderable best.
Misanthropic Andrea Cort is back in another fine adventure dealing with her complicated past and present while negotiating aliens with plans to manipulate her past and a brutal killer in another deeply satisfying adventure/mystery.
Castro is always an interesting read and his Court series a fine example of his not inconsiderable best.
July 20, 2024
A great novella, probably my favorite of the Andrea Cort short stories I've been reading. However, I feel it could've been made a bit tighter, and the separation in chapters seemed unnecessary at times.
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