Ventiforms: The Worlds of Shilinka Switalla, #4

By Sean Monaghan

The windy, parched planet Zepheirre discourages visitors. Actively.

Tailé Aronsen's mission to find her son strikes problems from the moment she arrives in orbit.

But the extraordinary Ventiform sculptures might reveal more than they hide.

If Tailé can figure out where to look.

A Shilinka Switalla story from the author of Defragging Carla and Raven Rising.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sean Monaghan
• Release date: May 31, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386944294

Sean Monaghan

Award-winning author, Sean Monaghan has published more than one hundred stories in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and in New Zealand, where he makes his home. A regular contributor to Asimov’s, his story “Crimson Birds of Small Miracles”, set in the art world of Shilinka Switalla, won both the Sir Julius Vogel Award, and the Asimov’s Readers Poll Award, for best short story. He is a past winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Award, and the Amazing Stories Award. Sean writes from a nook in a corner of his 110 year old home, usually listening to eighties music. Award-winning author, Sean Monaghan has published more than one hundred stories in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and in New Zealand, where he makes his home. A regular contributor to Asimov’s, his story “Crimson Birds of Small Miracles”, set in the art world of Shilinka Switalla, won both the Sir Julius Vogel Award, and the Asimov’s Readers Poll Award, for best short story. He is a past winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Award, and the Amazing Stories Award. Sean writes from a nook in a corner of his 110 year old home, usually listening to eighties music.

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