Flashes in Time

by Mikko Rauhala

Overview

What happens when an AI assistant is always whispering in your ear? Does hacking into the structure of reality help you get a prom date? When your world is dying, how far are you willing to go to save its people? What is the nature of identity, and who are you, anyway?

Flashes in Time explores these questions and more in sixteen imaginative short stories set atop a fourfold table of science fiction and fantasy, contemporary and far off.

A diverse cast of characters explores the limits of what it means to be human, and what our choices make of us.

From darkness to light and lingering in between, the scenarios and thought experiments take the reader on a journey with surprising yet inevitable twists.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940167750210
Publisher:	Water Dragon Publishing
Publication date:	01/29/2025
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Mikko Rauhala is a bilingual Finnish science fiction author. He often writes his stories in both languages, which can get frustrating when there's no one else to blame for the occasional dual meanings.Informed by his master's degree in intelligent systems, he's most at home in hard science fiction settings, though he's not exclusive and likes to cross genres. Whether the subject is steam powered gnomes or universal quantum suicide, Rauhala enjoys taking an eccentric premise and bringing it to its logical conclusion. As befits a Finn, his plot-driven narrative is often seasoned with a touch of dark, dry humor.Rauhala's Finnish short fiction has been published in collections and other media, and he has a national Atorox award nomination to show for it. His English credits include coauthoring Infinite Metropolis (Aurelia Leo, 2020) and "Rekindled" in Best Vegan SFF of 2020 (Metaphorosis, 2021).