Time Enough: Science Fiction Anthology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798410887564)

26 Short Stories. 26 ways into the imagination of a writer who refuses to stay in one place.

TIME ENOUGH collects the short fiction of M C Neuffer across a career that has taken him from hard science fiction to supernatural horror, from literary grief to steampunk romance, from noir crime to cosmic comedy. What unites them is not genre but voice - and a set of recurring obsessions that run like signal through the noise: the weight of time, the strange dignity of outsiders, the way small moments crack open into something much larger, and the persistent suspicion that the universe has a sense of humor darker than we'd prefer.

Here is a woman hunted through tunnel warrens by AI predators, surviving on nerve and improvisation. Here is a reclusive writer drawn into an impossible friendship with an immortal in a rotting mansion. Here are Greek gods diminished and bickering in a modern city. Here is a cargo ship crew navigating the long silence between stars with an AI that has opinions about prayer. Here are the aliens who surrender to humanity in exchange for an Amazon Prime account. Here are the dead, sitting in pleasantly bureaucratic purgatory. Here is the American West stripped down to wind and regret.

Neuffer moves between registers with ease - the same hand that builds claustrophobic dread in a few hundred words can pivot to sly comedy in the next story, then to something quiet and aching, then to the clean architecture of a hard SF scenario. These stories have appeared in writing workshops and competitions, been read aloud in groups and in solitude, and they carry the marks of a writer who has studied how stories work and then decided to find out what happens when you work against the mechanism.

TIME ENOUGH is for readers who have run out of patience for fiction that stays in its lane.

Author: Marc Neuffer
ISBN-13: 9798410887564
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2022
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d