Bruce McAllister published his first story at 16 in Worlds of IF, a magazine edited by grandmaster SF writer Frederik Pohl to showcase new SF talent. Since then he has published short stories in the major magazines and year’s best anthologies, two novels, and the 2007 collection A young boy contacts an alien gun-for-hire in the hopes of saving his sister’s life. “Kin” has an impressive pedigree: dedicated to Harry Harrison, originally appearing in the February 2006 issue of Asimov’ Science Fiction Magazine, chosen by Gardner Dozois to appear in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-fourth Annual Collection, and nominated for a Hugo Award in 2007.— ed, N.E. Lilly
Kin
Oct 12th, 2008 (18 minute read)