Fiction by Linda Nagata

Cover design by Emily Irwin
Cover photo by Benjamin Suter from Pexels.com

Cover Comment:

For this special short fiction collection we wanted a cover suggestive of the United States Air Force Academy—the mountains, the symbolic star, the starry sky alluding to a space-going future, and also the dangerous potential for disorientation. I think Emily did a fantastic job.

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Attitude and Other Stories

Ebook Edition:
Mythic Island Press LLC, June 2022
ISBN# 978-1-937197-43-8

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Print Edition:
Mythic Island Press LLC, July 2022
ISBN# 978-1-937197-42-1

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Selected for the Class of 2026 Air Force Academy
One Book, One USAFA

Fiction can be seen as a thought experiment that allows us to test our ideas, our values, and the creative reach of the human mind. Science fiction is a special kind of thought experiment because it can reach beyond the known world, to explore the temptations, hazards, conflicts, challenges, and possibilities that might lie just over the horizon.

Attitude and Other Stories brings together select military and near-future science fiction tales. These are stories that embrace action and harrowing adventure across high-tech battlefields and surreal other worlds—while also exploring the complex landscapes of the human heart.

Note for readers: Several stories in this collection are also in Linda Nagata's short fiction collection Light and Shadow.

Here's a list of included stories:
Codename: Delphi (Lightspeed Magazine 2014)
Nightside On Callisto (Lightspeed Magazine 2012)
Attitude (Reach For Infinity 2014)
Devil in the Dust (Mission Critical 2019)
Region Five (Infinite Stars 2017)
The Way Home (Operation Arcana 2015)
The Last Good Man (novel excerpt)

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