The Rimworld Chronicles Tales from the Centerverse

Acclaimed science fiction short story writer Darrell R. Brown delivers 13 tales from his Centerverse, collected for the first time in chronological order. The Rimworld Chronicles is a sharp set of lightly intertwining stories that tell the story of a human-colonized galaxy that has forgotten its origins and must struggle with maintaining its vast empire and dealing with threats from invasion and war. Like the storytelling of World War Z, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, Faulkner's apocryphal Yoknapatawpha County, and Stephen King's paranormal nexus of Castle Rock, these charming tales taken together form a picture of a civilization that echoes our own and explores the themes of what it is to be human and what is an individual's place in the grand scheme of things. But this collection is more than that. It features some of Mr. Brown's most famous and haunting stories from a number of fun perspectives and different genres. Taken by themselves, they are good reads, but collected here, they play off each other beautifully. If you like twisted tales and imaginative science fiction scenarios, you will enjoy The Rimworld Chronicles.