Biology in Science Fiction: Free Fiction » Casil – Amy Sterling http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:22:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Renascence of Memory by Amy Sterling Casil http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-renascence-of-memory-by-amy-sterling-casil/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-renascence-of-memory-by-amy-sterling-casil/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:38:37 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=555 Title: The Renascence of Memory

Author: Amy Sterling Casil

Length: novella

First Publication: Without Absolution anthology, 2001

What the Story is About: “Carol Meyers, a former academic, suffers from Alzheimers. Thanks to a new nanotechnology treatment, Carol has now awakened from her long sleep in childish Alzheimer dreams. She has a new friend, Ned, who is in her head – a nanofriend. But becoming young again in both mind and body,with the memories of a lifetime may be more painful than anything she ever imagined. ” (Author’s summary)

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Author: Amy Sterling Casil

Length: short story

First Publication: Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 2006

What the Story is About: The touching story of a man and his genetically enhanced son.

Related Biology in Science Fiction blog post: Amy Sterling Casil: Perfect Strangers

Alternate story link (pdf)

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Author: Amy Sterling Casil

Length: novelette

First Publication: Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 2001

Awards: 2002 Nebula Nominee for Best Novelette

What the Story is About: Author’s summary “24-year-old Melodie is confined to a wheelchair with cerebral palsy, a heart defect, and a retinal disease that took her sight six years ago. Amid the dreary routine at the Mary-Le-Bow Center, Melodie eagerly anticipates the bi-monthly visit from her friend John, a famous musician unaware of Melodie’s hidden romantic feelings for him. When a team of American scientists offer Melodie a chance at a new life by transplanting her brain into a spaceship, she knows it’s time to find out the truth about John, and the truth about herself.”

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Author: Amy Sterling Casil

Length: novel

First Publication: 2002

What the Story is About: “In the world of Imago, something has gone very wrong. Changed freaks, victims of the Human Mutational Virus, roam California’s streets. DisLex, the entertainment utility, monitors everyone’s lives; yet few know that DisLex not only controls life, it has created it: perfect virtual constructs who can never die–the Imagos.” (Publisher description)

The free version of Imago is being published in serialized form at Book View Cafe. The first chapter was published November 15, 2009 and the serialization will be complete after 34 weeks. The link goes to Chapter 1.

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Author: Amy Sterling Casil

Length: novelette

First Publication: Magazine of Fanatasy & Science Fiction, 2000

Awards: 2001 HOMer Awards nominee

What the Story is About: “. . .a mysterious virus has produced a lower-class subculture of genetically defective humans who live out their bitter lives in group homes, or as freaks in the circus.” The same characters are featured in Sterling Casil’s novel Imago.

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