Wind from a Dying Star

by David D. Levine

Overview

A far-future tale of humanity’s descendants, struggling to survive in a universe that is running down, and the lone survivor of ancient humanity who helps them to recall their past.

“Wind from a Dying Star,” a short story, is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016104676
Publisher:	Book View Café
Publication date:	12/16/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	287 KB

About the Author

David D. Levine’s short stories have appeared in Asimov’s, F&SF, Analog, Realms of Fantasy, and numerous other magazines, websites, and anthologies, including four Year’s Best volumes (two SF, two Fantasy). He’s won a Hugo (Best Short Story, for “Tk’Tk’Tk”) and has received many other awards and nominations. David likes to think of himself as a writer who takes the classic ideas of Golden Age SF and gives them a fresh, up-to-date presentation… the SF equivalent of a New Beetle or Mini Cooper.

David lives in Portland, Oregon, where he’s spent more than half his life, and is now happily retired after working for 24 years at Tektronix, Intel, and McAfee. He co-edits the fanzine Bento with his wife, Kate Yule, and his website is at daviddlevine.com.

Editorial Reviews

Mr. Levine does an admirable job of bringing this tale to life and drawing the reader in. A homecoming tale that is sure to tweak a few emotions.

Tangent Online - David L. Felts

The very promising David D. Levine writes in “Wind from a Dying Star” of a… return, by humans become energy beings, to the place of their birth as a species; it’s impressive how tellingly human Levine makes radically distanced states of nostalgia and irretrievable loss.

Locus - Nick Gevers

“Wind from a Dying Star” by David Levine… posits that humanity will change itself to energy but that even that change will not dissipate a yearning for home before that home is destroyed…. [One of] the more interesting entries in this anthology.

Science Fiction Chronicle - Steven Sawicki