Cracking the Sky

Award-winning author Brenda Cooper’s first science fiction only collection treats readers to human stories about the future. Meet a physicist who searches across timelines in a desperate attempt to travel across them herself, a young woman who tried to re-cover the magic of a trip on a river with her grandfather, a young couple who suspect their neighbor child is being raised by robots, and many more…

HUMAN FUTURES

PART ONE

The ROBOT’S GIRL

SAVANT SONGS

RIDING in MEXICO

The WAR of the FLOWERS

TRAINER of WHALES

STAR of HUMANITY

MY FATHER’S SINGULARITY

PART TWO

The TRELLIS

SECOND SHIFT

BLOOD BONDS

PART THREE

The HEBRAS and the DEMONS and the DAMNED

The STREET of ALL DESIGNS

PART FOUR

MY GRANDFATHER’S RIVER

TEA with JILLIAN

FOR the LOVE of MECHANICAL MINDS

ENTROPY and EMERGENCE

ALIEN GRAVEYARDS

A HAND and HONOR

MIND EXPEDITIONS

PART FIVE

FOR the LOVE of METAL DOGS

CRACKING the SKY