Rainbow Lights

by Polenth Blake

Details

Genre: Science Fiction and Fantasy / Short Story Collection
First Publication Date: 23 May, 2013
Approximate Length: 66000 Words

ASIN (Kindle Edition): B00CZ2JDV8
ISBN (Epub): 9781301485833

Description

A deep-sea robot tells stories in every colour, but no shade can describe meeting a giant squid.

Rainbow Lights is the first collection by science fiction and fantasy author Polenth Blake. Alien scorpions, vampire ice cream sellers and clockwork flies, try to find their place in worlds where being human is optional. These thirty-five stories and poems are a mixture of new pieces and work published in venues like Nature, Strange Horizons and ChiZine.

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Table of Contents

Some of the stories and poems are available online. Links are provided after the titles.

• The Squid Who Lived Forever (hidden in the Nothing)

Violet

• A Broken Voice
• Ten Easy Steps
• An Accidental Knight
• The Message

Indigo

• An Island Shatters
• Monkey Bait
• Midnight Ice Cream
• Her Building (hidden in the Nothing)

Blue

• Grandmother's Dreaming
• Carousel Princess (available online)
• The Anti-Goose Brigade
• The Rules of Safe Duck Keeping
• The Dragonfly People

Green

• Visions of Destruction Series, Mixed Media
• Missed Connection: Lizard in the Dog Park (available online)
• Beetle Species of the Burnt Coast
• War of the Roses (available online)

Yellow

• Through Amber Eyes (available online)
• The Monsters in the Gaps
• Letters to a Fungus
• Honey Thief

Orange

• Berries on a Vine
• To Laugh at Acorns
• Whirligig Fingers and Globular Thumbs
• Clockwork Fly
• Thwarting the Fiends

Red

• Through the Hoops (available online)
• Recipe for Eternal Youth (hidden in the Nothing)
• Incident in Aisle Five
• Dead Meat (available online)

Ink

• Pickled Independence
• Where Angels Dwell
• The Road to the Beach
• A Gift of Pearls

Content Guide

The collection has a mixture of lighter and darker stories. Themes from the darker pieces include blood, injury, death and references to child harm.

Sex: None
Violence: Varies from none to graphic
Swearing: Infrequent swearing in some stories

Story Notes (Under Construction)

A Broken Voice - Injury, surgery and medical coercion.
Ten Easy Steps - Weight loss/diet culture and death.
An Accidental Knight - One fight scene.
The Message - Child distress.
An Island Shatters
Monkey Bait
Midnight Ice Cream
Her Building
Grandmother's Dreaming - Eldritch horror themes and death.
Carousel Princess - Neglect and homelessness.
The Anti-Goose Brigade - Alien abduction/invasion themes.
The Rules of Safe Duck Keeping
The Dragonfly People
Visions of Destruction Series, Mixed Media - Invasion themes, torture, death.
Missed Connection: Lizard in the Dog Park
Beetle Species of the Burnt Coast - Bones, discussion of death, predator/prey interaction.
War of the Roses
Through Amber Eyes
The Monsters in the Gaps - References to child abuse and murder, death
Letters to a Fungus - Creepy horror themes, animal harm references and death.
Honey Thief - Theft.
Berries on a Vine - Illness, death.
To Laugh at Acorns - Medical coercion and ableism themes.
Whirligig Fingers and Globular Thumbs - Bones and violence.
Clockwork Fly - Murder/death.
Thwarting the Fiends - Forced transformation.
Through the Hoops - Sports injuries.
Recipe for Eternal Youth - Child harm and murder.
Incident in Aisle Five - Cannibilism and violence.
Dead Meat - Body horror, blood, violence.
Pickled Independence - Slow apolcapyse themes, illness.
Where Angels Dwell
The Road to the Beach
A Gift of Pearls