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Alexander Jablokov’s latest novel, Brain Thief, has just been released in paperback by Tor Books. He tells us that his evocative new cover story owes its long gestation to the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop, the Rio Hondo writer’s workshop, and Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, among others. The story is part of a possible set, involving various odd forms of transportation. If there is interest, he may write more of them. He tells us, “the original inspiration for the story was, a dream I had in my teens, which has stuck with me, of transport cables running through the upper levels of an ancient city.”

Mother had gone home with a mechanical device for chopping tree roots out of drainage pipes and left her offspring to their mission. Arabella should have been getting home herself, to prepare for her going-away party, but instead she persuaded her mother that Andrew couldn’t handle finding Father an appropriate birthday present on his own. Mother had agreed, though reluctantly. As her children had reached their ...