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Red Planet in Evolve Two
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing is pleased to announce that the authors featured in Evolve Two - Vampire Stories of the Future Undead, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick,(Fall, 2011) are:
Kelley Armstrong
Tanith Lee
Sandra Kasturi
Ivan Dorin
Michael Lorenson
Jason Ridler
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
David Beynon
Eileen Bell
Peter Sellers
Sandra Wickham
Heather Clitheroe
Erika Holt
William Meikle
David Tocher
Leanne Trembley
Ryan McFadden
Steve Vernon
John Shirley
Bev Vincent
Anne Mok
Thomas Roche
For further information please write events@hadespublications.com
Kelley Armstrong
Tanith Lee
Sandra Kasturi
Ivan Dorin
Michael Lorenson
Jason Ridler
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
David Beynon
Eileen Bell
Peter Sellers
Sandra Wickham
Heather Clitheroe
Erika Holt
William Meikle
David Tocher
Leanne Trembley
Ryan McFadden
Steve Vernon
John Shirley
Bev Vincent
Anne Mok
Thomas Roche
For further information please write events@hadespublications.com
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Introduction – Nancy Kilpatrick
Pre-Apocalypse
The List – Kelley Armstrong
Nosangreal - Ivan Dorin
A Puddle of Blood - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
V-Link - Eileen Bell
Six Underground - Michael Lorenson
Toothless – Peter Sellers
Outwitted – Sandra Wickham
Symbiosis - David Beynon
Post-Apocalypse
Forest-Bathing – Heather Clitheroe
The Deal – Erika Holt
Homo Sanguinus - Ryan McFadden
Out With the Old – William Meikle
Chelsea Mourning – David Tocher
Blood That Burns So Bright - Jason Ridler
Survival of the Fittest – Leanne Trembley
The Faith of Burning Glass – Steve Vernon
New World Order
Soulglobe – John Shirley
Red Planet – Bev Vincent
Beacons Among the Stars – Anne Mok
The Big Empty – Thomas Roche
Beyond the Sun – Tanith Lee
The Slowing of the World – Sandra Kasturi
Kilpatrick opens the sequel to 2010's Evolve with a lengthy essay on vampiric history, setting the stage for 22 stories exploring the future of vampires. Some are comedic, like Kelley Armstrong's "The List"; more tragic are a predator's pleas for justice in Michael Lorenson's "Six Underground" and a simple attempt at companionship between a lonely human and an unexpectedly endangered vampire in David Beynon's "Symbiosis." Kilpatrick and her authors have avoided the common pitfalls of themed anthologies by creating an assortment of tales set in unique worlds, from the mundane to the postapocalyptic and interstellar; the futures don't quite reach Stapledonian depths of time, but Sandra Kasturi's "The Slowing of the World" hints at them. Never repetitious or dull, this anthology stands as a model for other editors to contemplate. (Aug.)
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About my story, he writes: Following Shirley’s meditation on loss is Bev Vincent’s “Red Planet”, which doesn’t so much meditate on loss as it does on how expansion is really a cyclical notion: The farther we go away from the world we leave behind, the more we are drawn back to it, out of both necessity and familiarity. This is especially true if you’ve got vampirism in the tale, as the contrast between the feeding ground of Earth and the relatively barren deserts of Mars prompts some eminently sensible choices. And, though Dorothy may not have meant it this way, Vincent will have you agreeing with Baum’s statement that “there’s no place like home.”
Tangent Online: "Red Planet" by Bev Vincent poses the question, "What do humans have to fear from vampires in space?" Nothing, unless the vampires want to return to Earth.