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EP18 Asleep in the Forest of the Tall Cats by Ken Brady
By admin | September 12, 2008
read by Leslie Ann Moore
Asleep in the Forest of the Tall Cats was originally published in 2004 in the Writers of the Future anthology. Ken Brady’s publications include: Analog, Writers of the Future, Strange Horizons, Talebones, Ideomancer, Darker Matter, Fortean Bureau, Weird Tales, Frequency, Rosebud, The William and Mary Review, and a variety of anthologies and foreign markets.
People descended in gleaming metal, fire burning bright across the cloud-streaked sky. They touched down and they stayed. They built, they charted, they named names, they changed the composition of the air. They explored with sensors and unmanned aircraft. When they found the planet safe, they bred. The first child, Pietor, was a test.
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September 16th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I really liked the story this week. It was a neat mystery and reminded me of other science fiction stories I’ve read where man colonizes a planet but doesn’t fully understand it. The tall cats were a bit more violent than the Piggies encountered by Ender, weren’t they?
September 19th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Hey, that was kinda hot.
Should you kids be reading this stuff?
Of course, what boy dosn’t have an erotic fantasy about an alien cat twin sister… and also having your parent’s brains ripped out of the back of their heads?
September 26th, 2008 at 12:09 am
The only issue I have with this story is the dialogue being Pietor said,”" she said “”, and so on. Surely theres a reason we have more words for “say” than just the one.
That gripe aside, I enjoyed it very much.