"Deathday" was first published in Fear Magazine in February 1991. But when an astonishing new substance appears on the streets, virtual reality takes on an entirely new dimension. In the year 2393, the crime lord Laurus rules Kariwak on Tropicana with an iron fist, jealously guarding control of the bitek trade. "Candy Buds" was first published in New Worlds #2 (1992). Alas, though environments may change, human nature does not.
Settlers came to the planet Nyvan hoping for a lifestyle free of Earthbound hatred. "New Days Old Times" is set in the year 2245. Then, one of its co-creators, Penny Maowkavitz, is murdered by one of the affinity-bonded servitor chimps, but nobody can identify the perpetrator - or the motive. Eden is a bitek habitat which orbits Jupiter, mining the fusion fuel on which Earth is dependent - a mini-nation of radical politics and even more radical technology. It tells about the events leading to the formation of the society that was to become the Edenists. "A Second Chance at Eden" is a detective story set in the year 2090. The story was adapted as an episode of Love, Death & Robots in 2019. It's set on Earth in the year 2070 and is about the fictional sport of beastie-baiting, involving contests to the death between artificial monsters controlled via human affinity bonds. "Sonnie's Edge" was first published in New Moon magazine in September 1991. During the early 1990s Hamilton wrote several short stories centered on the affinity technology - and they became the inspiration to write Night's Dawn.Ĭontents "Sonnie's Edge"
The stories in this collection form a series of snapshot glimpses into the history of the Confederation leading up to the time of Joshua Calvert and Quinn Dexter, two of the main characters in The Night's Dawn Trilogy. Hamilton, set in the Night's Dawn universe. A Second Chance at Eden (1998) is a collection of short stories by British writer Peter F.
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