Displacement

Colin Harvey

Nov 2009 · Swimming Kangaroo Books

About this ebook

At the white, freckled, cauliflower-like skin, Chau took a hissing breath. "This is Officer Chau. Confirm that the body is a Lenden." When Raphael Chau pulls the body of a dead alien from the water, he has no idea what he's getting into. It's a decade since a fleet of refugees parked in low-Earth orbit begging for sanctuary, and Vancouver has become a powder-keg of resentment on both sides. Assigned to an investigation that's a minefield of politics and media intrusion, Chau finds himself torn between divided loyalties, between his own people and what's right or wrong. A novella plus four other stories of distant colonies, alternate worlds and alien invasion by the bestselling author of Winter Song, Lightning Days and The Silk Palace. "The future of British speculative fiction is secure." Lyndon Perry, The Fix (on Future Bristol).

Ratings and reviews

This is the first eBook I have ever officially purchased. An anthology of shorter stories, though the first one reads more like a Novella, I was extremely happy with the purchase and even myspaced the Author. The first story is by far my favorite and would like to see more set in that near future of plantlike shape-shifting alien refugees living in Vancouver. Sort of a vegetarian Bladerunner ;) The other stories weren't QUITE as engrossing to me as the first one, but they were by no means bad, or even lower middling.