Biology in Science Fiction: Free Fiction » Dogs & Wolves http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory Sun, 06 May 2012 00:13:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 My Father’s Singularity by Brenda Cooper http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/my-fathers-singularity-by-brenda-cooper/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/my-fathers-singularity-by-brenda-cooper/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:00:55 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1933 Title: My Father’s Singularity

Author: Brenda Cooper

Length: short story

First Publication: Clarkesworld Magazine, 2010

What the Story is About: A young man leaves his family farm for a life of science. Years later he tries to share with his father the longevity and health implants and nano-medicine had given him. But without the farm – and his dog – it doesn’t help his father as he had hoped.

There is an audio version of the story also available at Clarkesworld.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/my-fathers-singularity-by-brenda-cooper/feed/ 0 Eugene by Jacob Sager Weinstein http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/eugene-by-jacob-sager-weinstein/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/eugene-by-jacob-sager-weinstein/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:25:08 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1864 Title: Eugene

Author: Jacob Sager Weinstein

Length: short story

First Publication: Popcorn Fiction, 2010

What the Story is About: An unusual detective uses scent to investigate a crime – and also to relate to his partner.

Listen to an audio version at Escape Pod

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/eugene-by-jacob-sager-weinstein/feed/ 0 In The Pound, Near Breaktime by Kent Brewster http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/in-the-pound-near-breaktime-by-kent-brewster/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/in-the-pound-near-breaktime-by-kent-brewster/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:41:21 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1514 Title: In The Pound, Near Breaktime

Author: Kent Brewster

Length: short story

First Publication: Tomorrow SF, 1995

Awards: Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1996.

What the Story is About: A clerk checking unwanted animals into the pound finds that they speak to him.

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Author: Steven Popkes

Length: short story

First Publication: SciFiction, 2002

What the Story is About: A man goes through extensive body modifications to be able to live with a pack of wolves.

Alternate source (pdf)

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Author: William T. Vandemark

Length: short story

First Publication: Brain Harvest, 2009

What the Story is About: The life of a (cloned cybernetic) dog in 10 acts.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/this-dogs-life-by-william-t-vandemark/feed/ 0 The People of Sand and Slag by Paulo Bacigalupi http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-people-of-sand-and-slag-by-paulo-bacigalupi/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-people-of-sand-and-slag-by-paulo-bacigalupi/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:26:03 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1361 Title: The People of Sand and Slag

Author: Paulo Bacigalupi

Length: novelette

First Publication: Fantasy & Science Fiction, 2004

Awards: Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2005; Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2005

What the Story is About: In the distant future humans engineered to survive on an Earth where the environment has become lethal to normal humans and most other animals. In this toxic landscape an armed unit of post-humans discovers an unmodified dog and must decide what to do.

Down in the valley, something was running, flushed by the hunter. It slipped along a shallow creek, viscous with tailings acid. The ship herded it toward us. Nothing. No missile fire. No slag. Just the running creature. A mass of tangled hair. Quadrupedal. Splattered with mud.

Alternate story link

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Author: Jay Lake

Length: short story

First Publication: Lone Star Stories, 2009

Awards: storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Story

What the Story is About: On post-human future Earth, Digger the Dog goes looking for death.

Listen to the Audio version at Escape Pod

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Author: Kathleen Ann Goonan

Length: short story

First Publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2008

Awards: Second place in the Theodore Sturgeon Awards, 2009

What the Story is About: A man’s memory lives on in the body of a dog.

(Only audio version currently available)

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/memory-dog-by-kathleen-ann-goonan/feed/ 0 The Last Dog by Mike Resnick http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-last-dog-by-mike-resnick/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-last-dog-by-mike-resnick/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:48:43 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1165 Title: The Last Dog

Author: Mike Resnick

Length: short story

First Publication: Hunting Dog, 1977

Awards: American Dog Writers Award For Best Short Fiction

What the Story is About: “The last dog on earth runs into what might be the last man. Can they join forces and survive in a world of destruction?”

Resnick contributed to a Mind Meld at SF Signal in which he explains how the story ended up in Hunting Dog, rather than one of the usual science fiction magazines.

Note: Only an audio version is currently available free online.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-last-dog-by-mike-resnick/feed/ 0 The Dead Lady of Clown Town by Cordwainer Smith http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-dead-lady-of-clown-town-by-cordwainer-smith/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-dead-lady-of-clown-town-by-cordwainer-smith/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:35:06 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=519 Title: The Dead Lady of Clown Town

Author: Cordwainer Smith

Length: short story

First Publication: Galaxy, 1964

What the Story is About: One of Smith’s stories set in his Instrumentality universe, about Elaine, a woman mistakenly made a medic, and the dog girl, D’Joan.

Related Biology in Science Fiction blog post: Is Cordwainer Smith’s Future Today?

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Author: Eileen Gunn

Length: short story

First Publication: Nature, 2006

What the Story is About: What happens when man’s best friend is uplifted to sapience?

Note: Published as a single page story as part of the “Futures” series in the scientific journal Nature.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/speak-geek-by-eileen-gunn/feed/ 0 Laws of Survival by Nancy Kress http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/laws-of-survival-by-nancy-kress/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/laws-of-survival-by-nancy-kress/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:19:36 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=304 Title: Laws of Survival

Author: Nancy Kress

Length: short story

First Publication: Jim Baen’s Universe, 2007

What the Story is About: Aliens capture a human and force her to teach dogs to obey – and love – for their own purposes.

Alternate link.

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