Fiction by Linda Nagata
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"Out In The Dark"
A Nanotech Succession short story, the second to feature Commonwealth police officer Zeke Choy, who must confront the draconian implications of Commonwealth law. Find it in the June 2013 issue of Analog.
Also see "Through Your Eyes"
The near-future story that inspired my novel The Red: First Light. Find it in the April/May 2013 double issue of Asimov's.
(Available in print and ebook versions.)
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Aloha!
... and welcome to my personal website. I'm Linda Nagata, a science fiction and fantasy writer with ten novels, a collection of short stories, and more books on the way.
My science fiction novels are usually considered "hard" science fiction, with an emphasis on character and story. The Bohr Maker won the Locus Award for best first novel, my novella "Goddesses" was the first online publication to receive a Nebula award, and in May of 2013 my story "Nahiku West" was named as a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.
I also have a duet of short, fast-paced fantasy novels collectively titled Stories of the Puzzle Lands. Call them quirky sword and sorcery, or scoundrel-lit with heart: they touch on themes of love, war, murder, marriage, and fate, with some dark humor thrown in to make it all flow.
All my books are available through my own publishing imprint, Mythic Island Press LLC. All have ebook versions, and most are also available in print.
If you'd like to know what's going on and when I have new work coming out, please consider "liking" me on facebook, following me on twitter, signing up for my "very occasional newsletter" (see the "New Book Alert" form below), or writing a review of one of my novels on Amazon or Barnes & Noble, or blogging about my work. Promotion is the hardest part of indie publishing, and I'm ever grateful for your support!
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Visit My Blog at Hahví.net
Please visit my blog and let me know what you think! I would love to hear from you. Here's a sample of my recent ramblings:
June 14, 2013
The Wild: Chapter 23
The Wild is my one and only attempt at high fantasy. It’s written in an old-fashioned, formal tone, with old-fashioned heroes, and is quite different from anything else I’ve done. Except for a handful of printed advance-reader-copies (ARCs) created in 2011 to test the market, it’s never been published—until now. I’m serializing it on my blog, one chapter every Friday. I hope you enjoy.Go to: beginning | prior chapter
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Chapter 23
Zavoy slept little that night, and when he arose he went at once to the library, where he took out The Journal of Days that had been kept by his people since they crossed over the mountains. His father had never learned to write, and had assigned the keeping of the book to another, but Zavoy had learned reading and writing at an early age, and The Journal was his passion. By the blue glow of a witch light he began to chronicle the past night’s remarkable events, writing in tiny characters to make the most of each page of precious paper.
After a time the door opened and thirteen-year old Lehe peeped inside. Zavoy smiled. Lehe was his cousin on his mother’s side. She did not care for the hunt, and rarely went outside the cavern, but like Zavoy she loved to read the old manuscripts, and hear the words of the far fathers and far mothers of long ago. “Everyone is still asleep downstairs,” she said with a pout.
“Come in then, and read.”
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- Book 1:The Bohr Maker
- Book 2: Deception Well
- Book 3: Vast
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- Memory
- Limit of Vision
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Updated June 16, 2013
A Note to New Readers...
If you enjoyed my stories "Nahiku West," or "Out In The Dark", both originally published in Analog, you might also like my novel from the same story world—The Bohr Maker—a tale of nanotechnology, adventure, and high-tech revolution. Find it at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Barnes & Noble, Mysterious Galaxy, Kobo Books, and Book View Café. Or purchase directly from Mythic Island Press LLC.
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—Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Hugo-award winner & USA Today bestselling author
THE RED: FIRST LIGHT
A near-future science fiction thriller
"There Needs To Be A War Going On Somewhere"
Lieutenant James Shelley commands a high-tech squad of soldiers in a rural district within the African Sahel. They hunt insurgents each night on a harrowing patrol, guided by three simple goals: protect civilians, kill the enemy, and stay alive—because in a for-profit war manufactured by the defense industry there can be no cause worth dying for. To keep his soldiers safe, Shelley uses every high-tech asset available to him—but his best weapon is a flawless sense of imminent danger...as if God is with him, whispering warnings in his ear. (Hazard Notice: contains military grade profanity.)
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The Red: First Light is a near-future thriller with a boots-on-the-ground military theme--and it's my first science fiction novel in ten years. I hope you'll check it out.
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More praise for The Red: First Light
"Military fiction and high-tech speculation, complex and edgy characters, a pinch of Eichmann in the plot, sly bits of Frankenstein in the setting, ... make Linda Nagata's The Red: First Light compulsively readable."
—Vonda N. McIntyre, Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Dreamsnake, Starfarers, and The Moon and the Sun.
"The Red: First Light is a fast-paced, exciting story about soldiering in the near future. The characters are likeable and well-drawn, and the piece is infused with the kind of careful, thought-provoking attention to "how might this work, really?" that has always been one of Nagata's particular strengths."
—Sean Stewart, author of the World Fantasy Award winner Galveston
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Stories of the Puzzle Lands - Published by Mythic Island Press LLC
Stories of the Puzzle Lands - Book 1
The Dread Hammer - a tale of love, war, murder, marriage, and fate
An enthralling, dark fantasy:
He lurks beside the forest road, a charming, well-armed young murderer, not altogether human. She draws near, a contrary shepherdess fleeing an unwanted marriage. When he overhears her prayer for help, whispered to the Dread Hammer, he decides to grant it--and love takes him by surprise. But love proves a greater challenge than murder.
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Stories of the Puzzle Lands - Book 2
Hepen the Watcher - a tale of exile, rebellion, fidelity, and fire
The demon Dismay's murderous nature has earned him the ire of his beloved wife, who has sent him away in a fit of temper. He ventures into a foreign land, drawn by the prayers of abused and desperate women who beg him to grant them vengeance against the men who cruelly rule their lives--and Dismay is pleased to do it.
Still, murder is hard and dirty work.
An avid desire for a bath brings him to a fine Lutawan estate, where he meets two beautiful young women. They delight in their fierce guest—but their kindness to Dismay earns the wrath of the immortal king, Hepen the Watcher.
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Short Story Collections - Published by Mythic Island Press LLC
Goddesses & Other Stories by Linda Nagata
Ten science fiction stories, including my Nebula Award winning novella "Goddesses." This collection brings together for the first time my short fiction, originally published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, More Amazing Stories, and SciFi.com.
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Two Stories: "Nahiku West" & "Nightside On Callisto" by Linda Nagata
Two science fiction stories originally published in 2012. Both stories have been included in 2012 best-of-the-year anthologies!
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The Nanotechnology Novels . . . now, The Nanotech Succession
The nanotechnology novels were originally published from 1995 through 1998 by Bantam Spectra. In November 2010 they were re-published as ebooks by Mythic Island Press LLC under the collective title The Nanotech Succession. Each novel works as a stand-alone story, but since they share the same story world and sometimes the same characters, they can also be read as a loose series. Tech-Heaven is a near-future prequel. The Bohr Maker is Book 1, followed by Book 2, Deception Well, and culminating in Book 3, Vast.
Tech-Heaven - A Prequel to the Nanotech Succession
A political thriller that imagines the rise of nanotechnology in our world through the eyes of Katie Kishida, a mother and business woman whose life takes an extraordinary turn when she is widowed, and her husband's body is cryonically frozen against a time when advancing technology will allow his resurrection.
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The Bohr Maker - Book 1 of the Nanotech Succession
Society has expanded into the great orbital habitats known as the "Celestial Cities" and nanotechnology saturates every aspect of life--but the rules regulating its use are still being written. A brilliantly original, fast-paced thriller, The Bohr Maker won the Locus Award for Best First Novel.
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Deception Well - Book 2 of the Nanotech Succession
Advancing technology has allowed human civilization to expand across star systems, establishing settlements divided from one another by vast gulfs of space and time. But all along the frontier, human settlements are under attack by the ancient and deadly robotic warships of a mysterious alien race known as the Chenzeme.
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Vast - Book 3 of the Nanotech Succession
Four people are aboard the great ship, Null Boundary. They are bound for the lightless clouds of dust and gas in the galaxy's Orion Arm, determined to find the source of the alien Chenzeme warships that have ravaged human civilization. Vast is an extraordinary adventure embracing the limitless nature of both space and time.
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Science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds had some very nice things to say about Vast. Find his blog post here.
The Nanotech Succession Omnibus Edition
All four novels of the Nanotech Succession in one ebook. Includes Tech-Heaven, The Bohr Maker, Deception Well, and Vast.
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Other Story Worlds:
Memory
A unique far-future adventure set on a world where the past rises up each night to rewrite the future.
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Science fiction writer Tobias Buckell talks about Memory. Find his blog post here.
Limit of Vision
A near-future thriller set in the steamy Mekong Delta. Ethics and evolution collide in this tale of runaway biotechnology.
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Skye Object 3270a
A far-future, high-adventure young-adult novel aimed at an advanced middle school audience. The story is set in the Deception Well story world, but is otherwise independent of that book and its characters. If you want to infect a new generation with the science-fiction meme, start here!
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