Flashes in Time - Softcover

Rauhala, Mikko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1964952735 ISBN 13: 9781964952734

Publisher: Water Dragon Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Water Dragon Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1964952735
• ISBN 13: 9781964952734
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 134