NYRSF February 2013 Issue 294 by Kevin J Maroney

Author:Kevin J Maroney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Burrowing Wombat Press

At its core, Mellor tells us, this is a book about being a man, yearning for completion, buggering things up, trying again, moving into realms we dimly imagine but cannot quite perceive. Some of his men are genuinely monstrous and abetted in their monstrousness by technology out of control. Other stories share a universe blighted by relict weapon systems able to overwhelm and parasitize men and women alike in ways that make the horrifying scenes in Alien seem cozy:

The air crackled around her as the entity tunneled into the nexus. It thrashed over her head and latched onto her collar bone. She screamed as it ripped open her chest.

Blood sprayed across my face and I staggered back. I heard grunting in the distance and realized it was coming from me. . . . I stepped out into vacuum. The entity was inside Chenzira now, zipping her up from crotch to shoulder. Her skin blackened as the spacesuit activated, its amber lenses glowing.

A Scourge cloud sprayed out from the suit, boiling space in a confusion of black on black. It spread in all directions, penetrating my field, cutting through me.

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