Carolyn Ives Gilman
Clarkesworld
2018
Novella
SF Colony Adventure
18,059 words
details
The colonists on Dust usually hunker down for their years-long winter, especially when the companion star, Umber, blasts the surface with radiation, but a critical package from Earth needs to be retrieved now.
First ContactColonialismBleak
Content warnings 4
body-horrordeathdeath-of-a-loved-oneviolence
Carolyn Ives Gilman
Clarkesworld
2016
Novelette
SF
11,819 words
details
Months after mysterious aliens scattered their spacecraft across North America, no one has a clue what they want. Avery knows what one of them wants, though: it wants a tour.
First ContactColonialismMidwest USA
Content warnings 3
animal-harmdeathdeath-of-a-loved-one
Carolyn Ives Gilman
Analog
2023
Novella
Science Fiction
18,141 words
details
"The Taghrib Colony had existed for almost two hundred years, and all that time it had been waiting to die. Then one night Rustem, tinker of Biskra, discovered a nova in the sky. The beautiful, deadly sun had just gone down, and the twilit air was...
Carolyn Ives Gilman
Tor.com
2020
Novelette
Science Fiction
13,385 words
details
Exile’s End is a complex, sometimes uncomfortable examination of artifact repatriation and cultural appropriation. An artifact of indescribable and irreplaceable beauty created by an “extinct” culture has been the basis of another culture’s origin stories....
Diaspora SFDiasporaPhilosophical
Carolyn Ives Gilman
Lightspeed
2019
ShortStory
SF Adventure
7,214 words
details
When Seth’s boss breaks her leg, he’s called in at the last minute to narrate the live feed from the Titan probe.
First ContactColonialismHopeful