Kunsken fits in just so much ‘extra’ into the story, when a more bog standard approach would have been a simple ‘scientist solves riddle’ story
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Derek Kunsken. Ghost Colors. (Asimovs February 2015)
An interesting read, particularly in this age when geneological databases, family history research, and even Facebook can keep you closely attached to the past in a way that wasn’t the case pre-Internet.
Derek Kunsken. Schools of Clay. (Asimovs February 2014)
Set in the same/similar world to his ‘The Way of The Needle’ from Asimovs March 2012 – metal/mechanical crablike race of creatures, harvesting minerals and other materials from the planet’s surface.
Derek Kunsken. The Way of the Needle. (Asimovs, March 2012)
An excellent piece of world-building from Kunsken, set on a planet whose inhabitants are metallic crablike creatures, who draw power from the ancient pulsar around which they orbit, post-supernova.
Derek Kunsken. To Live and Die in Gibbontown. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2011)
Monkey business on a gonzo Planet of the Apes, with a hired assassin failing spectacularly to complete his contract.