Found 3 works tagged 'Jupiter'.
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Published Mar 3, 2020 · 3,599 words (14 minutes) · 4 likes · 938 views
Science Fiction Romance Jupiter Jupiter moon disabled main character genetic modification disabled lead character Europa disability disabled protagonist space colony
150 years in the ice and radiation of Jupiter’s moon has left a small community irrevocably changed—right down to their DNA. When a probe from a space station drops out of the sky with an offer of “rescue,” Vlad and his wife Marie have a difficult (and life-altering) choice to make.
Author Elinor Caiman Sands lives and writes in the UK. Her work has appeared in the Defying Doomsday anthology, Cosmos Online, and the Strange Bedfellows Anthology of Political Science Fiction.
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Published Mar 3, 2020 · 7,835 words (29 minutes) · 416 views
Science Fiction Romance genetic engineering mining volcano Jupiter Jupiter moon
Magrian is an Iod, a genetically engineered "non-person" destined to spend his life as a brutally oppressed miner on Jupiter's hostile moon, Io. But his life is turned upside down when he meets Jazri, an expert on volcanism from nearby Europa. This story is a sequel to “In Place of Darkness” which first appeared in the Strange Bedfellows anthology of Political Science Fiction, (Bundoran Press, 2014).
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Published Mar 3, 2020 · 3,444 words (13 minutes) · 376 views
Science Fiction Jupiter moon political persecution genetic modification mining volcano Space Station Jupiter industrial dispute
An apparently rich and privileged young man is sent by his industrialist father to deal with a potentially explosive labour strike on an Io mining colony. The miners are strange, troll-like, radiation-adapted beings who most people dismiss as barely human. The young man nevertheless agrees to meet with their leader and ultimately comes to question whose side he's on, the miners' or his father's? Originally published in Strange Bedfellows: An Anthology of Political Science Fiction.