Datafall: Collected Speculative Fiction

In Datafall: Collected Speculative Fiction, seven shorts by Rich Larson range from far-flung space opera to near-future noir, sinister steampunk to mind-bending time travel, and darkly humorous to subtly thought-provoking.

In EVERY SO OFTEN, Victor has been living in the past for a long time--his job is to murder anyone who might try to alter it. He's been successful so far, but on a long enough timeline..?

MEMORY CATHEDRALS is the first scifi short exclusive to this collection. When a star footballer's career is cut short by injury, he decides to sell his memories...but that's not all he's doing with them.

LOOPHOLES takes us to the 22nd century, where a wealthy murderer has found a new way to dodge the law. But Klaus Barbier, part-time reamer addict and full-time homicide detective, has never been above bending the rules himself.

In BACK SO SOON, a bored businesswoman is determined to add someone interesting to her life--and she seems to have hit the jackpot when a shell-shocked colonist returns to Seattle, Washington, Earth.

FACTORY MAN visits the steampunk city of Colgrid, where a young soldier returns home to find that corpses are no longer wasted on caskets.

In DATAFALL, the final and titular exclusive, Solomon and his father take their technology out of hiding and await the Cloud.

Datafall: Collected Speculative Fiction contains over 10 000 words of hard-hitting sci-fi by an up-and-coming young author and contains six original cover illustrations by artist Christopher Ruz.