Waiting for the Zephyr
by Tobias S Buckell
13 minutes, 19 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
2000
When the fuel went, Mara's town turned to windpower. They struggled on as the lights left, as the cities fell fallow, and plastic became a memory. Their only link to the outside world is the Zephyr, and now it too has not shown up. Originally published in Jackhammer. Narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal of the Willamette Radio Workshop.
Categories: 1-15 minutes, 2006 Release, 20th Century AD, 21st Century AD, Adventure, Fiction, Free, Mary Robinette Kowal (Reader), Podcast, SF Story, Science Fiction, Short Story, Speculative, Tobias S Buckell
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13 minutes, 19 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
2000
When the fuel went, Mara's town turned to windpower. They struggled on as the lights left, as the cities fell fallow, and plastic became a memory. Their only link to the outside world is the Zephyr, and now it too has not shown up. Originally published in Jackhammer. Narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal of the Willamette Radio Workshop.
Categories: 1-15 minutes, 2006 Release, 20th Century AD, 21st Century AD, Adventure, Fiction, Free, Mary Robinette Kowal (Reader), Podcast, SF Story, Science Fiction, Short Story, Speculative, Tobias S Buckell
Tobias S. Buckell is a 'born Caribbean' speculative fiction writer. His sometimes island flavored work often turns up in various magazines and anthologies, and his debut novel Crystal Rain [new window] will be published by TOR in February 2006.
He is a Clarion graduate, Writers of The Future prize winner, and a John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer Nominee. Publishers Weekly has called his pieces 'somber' and 'affirming,' and Locus says some of his work is 'interesting for its non-western setting.' Website [new window]
Posted by alex at May 31, 2006 10:19 AM
