Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog when she sees footage of a school bombing on TV. Craig will learn that not everything dead is gone.Īs the world around him crumbles into oblivion, a man realizes that he contains multitudes.Ī story told in reverse, starting with the end of Chuck Krantz's life, and moving back in time to show how he'd lived that life of joy and yet sorrow. One night, missing his friend, he leaves a voice message. Harrigan dies, Craig places the phone in his pocket to be buried with him. The old man is reluctant to accept the phone at first, but comes to enjoy it. Harrigan as a thank you gift after a scratch-off lotto ticket that Harrigan had gifted the boy pays off as he got thousands from the scratch-off. As the years go on, Craig buys an iPhone for Mr. Harrigan when he's just nine years old, watering plants and reading to the old man, who has retired to the small town of Harlow, Maine, after a successful business career, earning millions in cash. A teenager finds that a dead friend's cell phone that was buried with the body still communicates from beyond the grave.Ĭraig gets a job working for the retired Mr.
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SciFri producer Christie Taylor, Journal of Science Fiction managing editor Aisha Matthews, and speculative fiction author K. This week, we talk about ‘Dumb House,’ plus its place in Afrofuturism -culture and storytelling that imagines futures with African-descended people and culture at the forefront. African-American author Andrea Hairston ’s story ‘Dumb House,’ is about a woman named Cinnamon who finds herself pestered by a pair of traveling salesmen, who hope to persuade her to upgrade her house into something smarter. The Science Friday Book Club continues this week, this time reading another short story from the speculative fiction collection New Suns. Want to participate? Sign up for our newsletter or record a voice message as you read on the Science Friday VoxPop app. This is a part of our fall Book Club conversation about the short story collection, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction By Writers of Color, edited by Nisi Shawl. But the competition is fierce, and when her passion for tinkering with bots gets her mixed up with dangerous junkyard rebels, she knows her future in the program is at risk.Įven scarier, she starts to notice that something’s not right at Start-Up-some of her friends are getting sick, and no matter what she does, her tech never seems to work right. If she can beat out half her classmates at Start-Up, a tech school for the city’s most talented twelve-year-olds, she’ll be meshed to the multiweb through a neural implant like her mom and sister. |