Promise collects Christi Nogle’s best futuristic stories ranging from plausible tech-based science fiction to science fantasy stories about aliens in our midst: chameleonic foils hover in the skies, you can order a headset to speak and dream with your dog, and your devices sometimes connect not just to the web but to the underworld.
These tales will recall the stories of Ray Bradbury, television programs such as Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone, and novels such as Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin or Under the Skin by Michel Faber.
They are often strange and dreadful but veer towards themes of hope, potential, promise.
My Review
Thanks to Anne from Random Things Tours for organising this tour, and to Flame Tree Press for sending me a copy of this book.
This book is a collection of short stories that are weird and creepy. The stories are a variety of lengths and are varied in subject. I enjoyed most of them. One or two felt unfinished or like extracts from longer works.
My favourite story was The Orbital Bloom, an epistolary story written with Eileen Gunnell Lee. The characters of Ronnie and her mum come through very clearly. Ronnie is driven to please while her mother is a neglectful narcissist. The distance of space with the letters bringing the pair together over time is really well written and paced.
I also enjoyed Laurel’s First Chase, it was creepy and cool, and the relationship between the characters is a push and pull between love and fear of each other.
The Laffun Head creeped me out!
If you like creepy Sci fi, I highly recommend th
About the Author
Christi Nogle is the author of the novel Beulah.
Her fiction has appeared in over fifty publications.
Christi lives in Boise, Idaho with her partner Jim and their dogs.
Follow her at christinogle.com or on Twitter @christinogle
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