Tag: Retrieval Artist

The Retrieval Artist

The Retrieval Artist

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Analog, June 2000)

Magazine cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2000

A significant novella that establishes Rusch’s concept of human corporations sponsoring disappearances so as to circumvent the strange requirements of alien justice. Though paving the way for a successful series of books, this first story indulges in an awful lot of telling.

 

 

Recovery Man

Recovery Man

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Penguin, 2007)

Rusch_Recovery Man

While surprisingly little happens in this Retrieval Artist novel, Rusch is as readable as ever and the narrative to and fro spawns an immersive understanding of her near-Earth SF future – a potpourri of corporate frontier settlement, digital advancement and edgy alien multiculturalism.

 

 

Derelict Space Sheep