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Polis
Polis is
is Earth's One City, the Last City, the Only City
Covering every square meter of the planet where humanity's hundreds of billions live and work.
A collection of diverse authors writing of small moments and large dramas.
Each story is 1000 words in an anthology spanning 1000 years.
Polis features the stories:
Immunis by Jeff Hayward
Domicile by Larry Ivkovich
Dream Of Level Zero by Vincent Baverso
It Just Never Ends by Bill Boichel
Narrow Margins by Brandon Ketchum
Habitation by Haley Wolfe
Alone In Good Company by Alfred Smith
The Question by Samantha L. Barrett
Weavers The Woven by Myla Calhoun
Clink by Kayla J. Espinoza
And So We Boiled Their Bones by Jamie Lackey
Incandescent by Dan Thurot
is Earth's One City, the Last City, the Only City
Covering every square meter of the planet where humanity's hundreds of billions live and work.
A collection of diverse authors writing of small moments and large dramas.
Each story is 1000 words in an anthology spanning 1000 years.
Polis features the stories:
Immunis by Jeff Hayward
Domicile by Larry Ivkovich
Dream Of Level Zero by Vincent Baverso
It Just Never Ends by Bill Boichel
Narrow Margins by Brandon Ketchum
Habitation by Haley Wolfe
Alone In Good Company by Alfred Smith
The Question by Samantha L. Barrett
Weavers The Woven by Myla Calhoun
Clink by Kayla J. Espinoza
And So We Boiled Their Bones by Jamie Lackey
Incandescent by Dan Thurot
94 pages, Paperback
First published March 2, 2020
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About the author
Jamie Lackey
113 books62 followersJamie Lackey lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and their cat. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in 2006 with a degree in Creative Writing. She studied under James Gunn at the Center for the Study of Science Fiction's Writer's Workshop in 2010 and has taken various workshops with Cat Rambo. She primarily writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories.
She has over 200 short fiction credits, and has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and the Stoker Award-winning After Death.... Her fiction has appeared on the Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention and Tangent Online Recommended Reading Lists, and she's a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Her flash fiction collection, One Revolution, and her zombie novella, Moving Forward: A Novella of Life After Zombies, are available on Amazon.com. Her debut novel, Left Hand Gods, is available from Hadley Rille Books. She also has two short story collections available from Air and Nothingness Press.
She read submissions for the Hugo-winning Clarkesworld Magazine for five years and was an assistant editor for the Hugo-winning Electric Velocipede from 2012-2013. She served as editor for Triangulation: Lost Voices in 2015 and Triangulation: Beneath the Surface in 2016.
She enjoys reading, writing, tabletop role playing games, video games, baking, and hiking. Learn more about her at her website, www.jamielackey.com
She has over 200 short fiction credits, and has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and the Stoker Award-winning After Death.... Her fiction has appeared on the Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention and Tangent Online Recommended Reading Lists, and she's a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Her flash fiction collection, One Revolution, and her zombie novella, Moving Forward: A Novella of Life After Zombies, are available on Amazon.com. Her debut novel, Left Hand Gods, is available from Hadley Rille Books. She also has two short story collections available from Air and Nothingness Press.
She read submissions for the Hugo-winning Clarkesworld Magazine for five years and was an assistant editor for the Hugo-winning Electric Velocipede from 2012-2013. She served as editor for Triangulation: Lost Voices in 2015 and Triangulation: Beneath the Surface in 2016.
She enjoys reading, writing, tabletop role playing games, video games, baking, and hiking. Learn more about her at her website, www.jamielackey.com
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February 7, 2022
I really loved that concept: Earth becoming a gigantic city. Not that far fetched when you think about it. Not that I would like that, that's quite a bleak future if I go with what the authors wrote here! And yet, there was more hope than I thought. I was expecting distopian, sad, doom and gloom stories, and yeah, there's that. But even when it's dark, there was some sparks of hope. The majority of the stories anyway.
In general, I really liked this anthology. The concept also is nice: "1000 words in anthology spanning 1000 years". I think the authors pulled it off very well. All stories do well together and we really have this sensation of unity, of reading one big story.
My only criticism would be about the Era 3, the third and last part of the book. Only 2 stories there, it made the end kinda rushed. But the stories themselves are excellent. I'm glad I've read this book. :)
In general, I really liked this anthology. The concept also is nice: "1000 words in anthology spanning 1000 years". I think the authors pulled it off very well. All stories do well together and we really have this sensation of unity, of reading one big story.
My only criticism would be about the Era 3, the third and last part of the book. Only 2 stories there, it made the end kinda rushed. But the stories themselves are excellent. I'm glad I've read this book. :)
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