In case you haven't heard, I have a story in the July/August 2011 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It's a special double issue, so you get my story and a lot more for your hard-earned $7.99. And to further drive the point home, here's the beginning:
Everyone else slept while I dove the Rolling Serpent along the Tharsis Highway, where it runs parallel to the steaming Marineris Canal, through the pre-dawn darkness toward the distant lights of New Las Vegas. Then a black bug kamikaze'd right between my eyes. I blinked hard, expecting it to splatter against the windshield. But no, that didn't happen.
The insect stopped just short of impact, hovered, flying backwards, staring me down.
It seemed be what we call, back in the varrios, a ninja bug. I had thought that they were a NeoMartian folktale. I had even written a song about them:
If the corpos don't like you
They'd send ninja bugs at you
So don't go boo-hoo-hoo
Be a nice little you
And there it was, the black bug with the red glowing eyes.
That's from “Death and Dancing in New Las Vegas.”
Even though it's a sequel to “The Rise and Fall of Paco Cohen and Mariachis of Mars,” I wrote it so it could read on its own. But if you're at all curious, the first story is available as a podcast.
And there are more Paco Cohen/NeoMartian stories growing in my brain . . .
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