Overview
No Return is a short story collection by Cairo Smith. It was published by Askari and released on June 15, 2024. The collection contains six science fiction and slipstream stories.
“Presence” and “The Palisade” appeared before the collection. The other stories in No Return were previously unpublished before the collection release.
No Return is available from Amazon.
Stories
- Presence - A short story about a networked device that gradually replaces its owner’s social identity.
- The Palisade - A short story about a man who discovers a realm outside ordinary time and the relationship that keeps drawing him back.
- Dark Peak - A short story about a postwar decommissioning flight that descends into a supernatural moor.
- The Third Machine - A short story about two parallel Project Remus facilities after a dimensional contact accident.
- Execution Detail - A short story about a marksman ordered to execute an insurrectionist leader.
- The Olynthian - A short story about a municipal artificial intelligence.