Wide Brown Land: stories of Titan (Titan Sequence) - Softcover

Petrie, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0648322823 ISBN 13: 9780648322825

Publisher: Simon Petrie, 2018

Synopsis

Light levels are low. It's killingly cold. These conditions are, it transpires, connected.

The icy landscape around you--hillocks, boulders, ravines, foregrounding a hazy, rumpled horizon beneath an opaque, lowering sky--wears a patina that shades from sepia to umber, puddled with drifts of dark sand. The atmosphere, though thick, would permit only a parody of respiration: there is no succour in it. Were it not for the insulating, carefully-regulated containment of your suit, you would be dead within minutes, frozen solid within an hour.

Welcome to Titan.

Wide Brown Land is a collection of hard science fiction short stories set in the settlements and badlands of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon, Titan, where the landscape is as formidable a foe as the most determined adversary.

About this title

Review

"Innovative and inclusive solar system fiction, pieced together in a puzzle-filled patchwork which successfully appeals to the emotion and logic that war in all of us."

--Thoraiya Dyer, author of the Titan's Forest series

"Petrie envisions frontier life in the extreme killing wilds of Titan, the intriguing realm of pharmhands, culturefarmers and carbon-foundry workers: explorers surviving on dirty air and groomed ice, from the bustling arcologies of Kuiper to the broad wind-smoothed valleys and tholin-stained dunes, disheartening vistas, ultra-cold and unforgiving."

--Cat Sparks, author of Lotus Blue

"An enjoyable read with a good variety of stories in a meticulously realised setting."

--Tsana Dolichva, astrophysicist and co-editor of Defying Doomsday

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon Petrie
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0648322823
• ISBN 13: 9780648322825
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192