It's all Bruce Bethke's fault.
Bruce ran The Friday Challenge, a weekly writing contest, and this particular one involved retelling a fairy tale as science fiction. I immediately jumped on Jack and the Beanstalk, because I could see the trip up the stalk as a ride on a space elevator. And rather than trading a cow for magic beans, my Jack traded an arm--literally--for his ticket up.
Once he's made it to the space station at the top of the stalk, he's going to have to face down the big man himself, and just wait til you see the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs--well, we don't want to pack too many spoilers into one blog post, now, do we...?
So, make sure to catch "The Girl, the Stalk, and Entropy," my take on the classic Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale, in Circuits and Slippers.
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A SCIENCE FICTION FAIRY TALE ANTHOLOGY
COMING SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
COMING SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
