'Impressive collection'

On Goodreads you'll find a review of my first short story collection, Gifts from a Dead Race (2017). Each of the 18 sci-fi/horror/fantasy tales prompts commentary. The last of the stories in this collection is 'A Gigantic Leap' (originally published in 2009).

A Gigantic Leap
Nik Morton ends on the best story in the collection. Yes, it’s alien bacteria premise might seem a little derivative, but the Soviet setting makes a refreshing change – particularly as it’s not railing against the system, just two people getting on with their lives. It’s an incredibly tense piece, but one that leans more to hope than tragedy. And hope is always a good way to end a big, impressive collection like this.

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and on this Remembrance Day it is as well to foster hope for the future that, sadly, so many would never see.