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Narration: Fate of the Nameless Child

In October 2020 my flash-fiction “Fate of the Nameless Child” was published in Australian zine “Antipodean Sci Fi“. Now, hear it come to life in my narration of this story in Nuke’s radio show at the link below.

Photo credit: Cedric at https://www.pexels.com/@cedricinshape and Freestocks at https://www.pexels.com/@freestocks

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A bit of background on the story.

“Fate of the Nameless Child” began as a longer piece of work several years ago; a multi-chapter, multi-perspective narrative and commentary on how people fear the unknown ‘thing’, the unknown ‘one’. Themes of attempting to understand, contain, destroy are explored more deeply in the original.

I shopped it around to several publishing houses to no avail; some lovely feedback on the tone of voice and the themes in the longer form piece, which I am sure I will publish here one day so you can appreciate the full story and more of the characters who only get a passing mention in this version.

Who is the nameless child, and what is their fate?

Alistair, October 2020

p.s. Read my previous piece “Fallen Angel” also published by Antipodean SF.

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Writing: Fate of the Nameless Child

My latest piece of flash-fiction “Fate of the Nameless Child” has been published by Australian zine “Antipodean Sci Fi”. Narration to follow soon!

Photo credit: Peter H at https://pixabay.com/users/tama66-1032521/

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A bit of background on the story.

“Fate of the Nameless Child” began as a longer piece of work several years ago; a multi-chapter, multi-perspective narrative and commentary on how people fear the unknown ‘thing’, the unknown ‘one’. Themes of attempting to understand, contain, destroy are explored more deeply in the original.

I shopped it around to several publishing houses to no avail; some lovely feedback on the tone of voice and the themes in the longer form piece, which I am sure I will publish here one day so you can appreciate the full story and more of the characters who only get a passing mention in this version.

Who is the nameless child, and what is their fate?

Alistair, October 2020

p.s. Read my previous piece “Fallen Angel” also published by Antipodean SF.

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Narration: The Optimist

This is a cracking story by long-time Australian speculative fiction author, Simon Brown. I was delighted to be asked to narrate this story, set in a future north-coast New South Wales, for Antipodean Science Fiction.

Link to the radio show is here.

Allchin, William T. Howell; Still Life with an open Book and Spectacles; The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/still-life-with-an-open-book-and-spectacles-141457
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Writing: Fallen Angel

Delighted to have my first piece of flash-fiction “Fallen Angel” published by Australian zine “Antipodean Sci Fi”, with a digital cover-art by me as well.

Fallen Angel – Digital photo manipulation – Alistair Lloyd, 2020

Stay tuned for the narration, coming soon…

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So, some background on the story.

“Fallen Angel” was written early in the Australian summer of 2018. Originally in a longer form, I took the challenge to present it as a piece of flash fiction.

Having been a space geek since my childhood, the concept of finding something in orbit that shouldn’t be there presented in my mind as a scientific who-dun-it mystery. When a nuclear weapon goes “missing”, there is a code phrase for that – a “broken arrow”. But when I researched what phrase would be used to identify the death of an astronaut while on a mission (as opposed to during launch or re-entry) I couldn’t find anything.

Not to say that there isn’t a phrase locked away in a procedural guide at NASA or ESA… it just is not known to the general populous.

Hence, “Fallen Angel”.

The narrating character is not named in the story. He has his own backstory, and his own methods, and further investigations which will hopefully be revealed in future stories.