"The Mighty Slinger"
| Title | "The Mighty Slinger" |
| Year for Search | 2016 |
| Authors | Buckell, Tobias S[amuel](b. 1979), and Lord, Karen [A. R.](b. 1968) |
| Secondary Authors | Strahan, Jonathan(b. 1964) |
| Secondary Title | Bridging Infinity |
| Pagination | 119-56 |
| Date Published | 2016 |
| Publisher | Solaris |
| Place Published | Oxford, Eng |
| Keywords | Barbadian author, Brazilian American author, Female author, Grenadian author, Male author, US author, US Virgin Islands author |
| Annotation | The story begins in a future in which climate change and exploitation of the environment has left Earth uninhabitable. The Moon has been terraformed and the terraforming of Mars is in progress with indentured laborers. The story then follows a musician who has supported the workers and helped develop a project to revitalize Earth far into the future to when he can return to his recreated Caribbean homeland. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. with Lord as the first author in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 471-95; and in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 365-398. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Buckell (b. 1979) was born in Grenada and raised there and in the British and U.S. Virgin Islands. He now lives in the U.S. Lord (b. 1968) is a Barbadian female author who has a doctorate in the sociology of religion form Bangor University in Wales. |
| Full Text | 2016 Buckell, Tobias S[amuel] (b. 1979) and Karen [A. R.] Lord (b. 1968). “The Mighty Slinger.” Bridging Infinity. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 119-56. Rpt. with Lord as the first author in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 471-95; and in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 365-398. PSt The story begins in a future in which climate change and exploitation of the environment has left Earth uninhabitable. The Moon has been terraformed and the terraforming of Mars is in progress with indentured laborers. The story then follows a musician who has supported the workers and helped develop a project to revitalize Earth far into the future to when he can return to his recreated Caribbean homeland. Buckell was born in Grenada and raised there and in the British and U.S. Virgin Islands. He now lives in the U.S. Lord is a Barbadian female author who has a doctorate in the sociology of religion form Bangor University in Wales. |
