Polenth Blake – författare

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.

The Spokane Ecology Board covers up supernatural incidents, under the pretence of enforcing environmental laws. It's a dull job of sightseeing thunderbirds and pixie outbreaks. Until the team gets murdered.Ari is the replacement team's Bigfoot liaison. Armed with everything she's learned from detective shows, she's ready to find the murderer. The downside is the job comes with a human partner, who smells of air freshener and lines up his desk like a math project. He's only a scientist, so it's not like he knows anything about magical crimes.Ben Cabot grew up hearing stories about Bigfoot, but they failed to mention a love of the internet or an aversion to throwing wrappers away. But there's more out of place than an untidy work partner. Someone's messed with the case files, and that means the killer might be closer than they think.

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our July 2024 issue (#214) contains:Original fiction by Tia Tashiro ("e;Every Hopeless Thing"e;), Amal Singh ("e;I Will Meet You When the Artifacts End"e;), Grant Collier ("e;The Best Version of Yourself"e;), Em X. Liu ("e;Stellar Evolutions in Pop Idol Artistry"e;),  Natalia Theodoridou ("e;Aktis Aeliou, or The Machine of Margot's Destruction"e;), AnaMaria Curtis ("e;The Happiness Institute"e;), and Polenth Blake ("e;Born Outside"e;).Non-fiction includes an article by D.A. Xiaolin Spires, interviews with Donna Scott and China Mieville, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.