Daniel H. Wilson

This story is free to read at UNCANNY MAGAZINE. 

“It’s all got out of hand. The warden, the governor—nobody even knows anymore how the candidates get picked. It’s supposed to be a cost benefit thing. Like, what’s a criminal cost if he stays in prison? What’s it cost to rehabilitate? How much if he dies in there?”

This short story is free to read at LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE.

"The crystal exists in all the worlds and must have since the beginning of time. It’s an old thing and tired. And it recognized me—all of me."

Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name—and spawned a new genre, the technothriller—the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.