Science fiction

Novels, novelettes, short stories and a play

Stephen Livesey Ashworth, Oxford, UK

The Marchioness (novelette, 2015)

An aristocratic lady with a secret mission embarks on an Earth-Moon cycler station. But the red planet beckons, and there is an unpleasant surprise waiting for her. Written after reading Andy Weir’s novel The Martian. (12,100 words)

Published in print in: Terence J. Henley (ed.), Visionary II: A science fiction anthology in the spirit of the British Interplanetary Society (British Interplanetary Society, 2018), p.147-180.

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