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Thin Air
A collection of short science fiction crime, mystery, and detective stories by Gustavo Bondoni.
Safe and Sorry
If you were given the option, would you choose security or adventure? Would you choose to belong, or would you choose to stand out? Safe and Sorry features a cast of characters wrestling with the meaning of safety in a world that trends toward chaos. Estelle starts her story at the bottom of society with nothing to lose. As she works her way steadily up, she discovers she is now afraid to take risks, terrified that she’ll lose what she has worked so hard for. As she moves from city to city, enduring brief stints of homelessness along the way, she begins to question the merit of a stable life. In the meantime, the world goes on around her. Bondoni takes the reader from a seaside village in Syria to the rural plains of Argentina to the humble streets of Ohio. An ancient language dies with an old woman; a young zealot questions his family’s rigid beliefs; an Australian physician succumbs to her violent instincts. The lives of doctors, businessmen, terrorists, and serial killers are seamlessly and expertly intertwined as they coexist in the periphery of Estelle’s life — all struggling to strike the right balance between familiarity and freedom.
Timeless
Journalist Marianne Caruso is in Athens on her first investigative piece: finding the reclusive author of a best-selling novel about drug smuggling in the Aegean. She goes out for a night on the town with a good friend, Karina, who disappears after leaving the club. Marianne’s journalistic instinct, combined with a re-reading of the novel, makes her suspect the kidnapping is linked to her investigation and that the book describes real criminals and events—criminals desperate to keep her from publishing her findings. Now even more determined to locate the author, Marianne teams up with Karina’s family to speak to underworld contacts and discovers the author is a monk at an ancient monastic complex forbidden to women. Medieval misogyny be damned, Marianne arranges a secret meeting with the monk, but the criminals ambush her. Separated from her companions, she runs for her life with only the monk himself for company, a man who might hold the key to rescuing Karina, but whose past holds secrets that might make him just as dangerous as the men she’s trying to escape.
Love and Death
A collection of linked short stories, Love and Death weaves together the lives of several characters around the themes of—you guessed it—love and death. Focusing on moments that define entire lives, for good or ill, it shows us humanity at its best and at its worst. Each page holds a vivid reminder that real life is interesting and magical, if occasionally tragic. From a poor prostitute to a reformed father to a rich teenager, all the characters’ fates are connected—if often without their knowledge.
Fat Man
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Bastion
The High Priestess on the run. The water bearer on a mission. Their fates intertwined in Bastion. In this arid, desolate world, Kine of the Wolf Clan is the water-bearer, serving his people who cling to survival in the uppermost levels of the ancient fortress. Their sworn enemies, the Sol Clan, have isolated them from the rest of the Redoubt. When Kine's lifelong friend, Vianna, mysteriously disappears, he suspects she's fallen victim to the Sol Clan's treacherous grasp. Determined to rescue her, Kine embarks on a perilous journey that leads him to an unexpected encounter with Celeste, a High Priestess fleeing her own people. As Redoubt's cutthroat politics unravel around them, Kine and Celeste form an unlikely alliance. Together, they plunge deeper into the heart of the fortress, endangering the lives of its inhabitants while racing against time to save their world. With relentless pursuit by Celeste's adversaries and no clue to Vianna's whereabouts, the fate of everyone hangs in the balance. Join the Wolf and Sol outcasts as they fight to safeguard their world in this enthralling sci-fi masterpiece. Bastion will leave you breathless, craving more with every turn of the page.
Off the Beaten Path
22 science fiction and fantasy stories, including two new, never-before published pieces, from the award-winning Argentinian author Gustavo Bondoni. Set in corners of the world oft forgotten, these stories will take you from the Namib desert, to the Amazon rainforest, to the far side of the moon. When you dare step Off the Beaten Path, the results could be catastrophic, but the possible rewards are great. Can a small band of of scientists use robotics to save the the last of an endangered New Zealand parrot from a genetically engineered menace? A student journalist desperately tries to save the world from a malevolent spirit using a recording of a dying old woman's last words. A firefighter at Chernobyl finds comfort from an unexpected source. Can an ageing musician calm the vengeful ghost of his old friend? Were fairies responsible for humanity's oldest story? Some of these stories will shock you with a horrifying twist; others will tug at your heartstrings with their emotional resonance. But all will intrigue and move you.
Splinter
Sequel to Bondoni's Outside. A spaceship returns to Tau Ceti; the news they bring disturbs the peaceful society of the colony, bringing violence and change. The AI woman from Earth's cyberworld fights for survival.
Amalgam
The trilogy that began with Outside reaches its dramatic conclusion as it spans the stars and visits worlds both physical and virtual. Virtual Emily and Rome have returned to Earth's simulation where they find all the people have vanished. Revolt is brewing in the Tau Ceti colony, as Mira Heine refuses to accept defeat, and a mysterious crime boss eliminates all who ask the wrong questions. Touk, physical Emily, and the Sextus colonists try to establish life on their new planet, but they become the frontline in a fight with a new enemy that threatens all of humanity, both natural and virtual. Will Artificial Intelligences be humanity's destruction or salvation? In the midst of the chaos, can Emily and Rome - at least some versions of them - find happiness together?
Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places
Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places is a collection of science fiction short stories from the brilliant mind of Gustao Bondoni. Come along as he takes us on a journey through the boundless reaches of space and the inner regions of the human spirit.
