the rose code – ScienceFiction.com https://sciencefiction.com Science Fiction (sci-fi) news, books, tv, movies, comic books, video games and more... Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:32:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 Fiction Review: ‘Signal Moon’ (2022) https://sciencefiction.com/2022/07/30/fiction-review-signal-moon-2022/ https://sciencefiction.com/2022/07/30/fiction-review-signal-moon-2022/#disqus_thread Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:39:22 +0000 https://sciencefiction.com/?p=355734 Amazon has been kind enough lately to grace readers with advance copies of select forthcoming titles, and I was lucky to grab a copy of Signal Moon by Kate Quinn, which is releasing wide in August from the streaming giant.  This novella-sized tale will be available in eBook only, but it packs a pretty decent punch into a relatively bite-sized story. In 1943, at the height of World War II, Lily Baines works for her country as a “Wren,” the Y-Station listeners of the British Royal Naval Service tasked with intercepting, relaying, and sometimes deciphering the enemy transmissions they hear over the airwaves.  Armed with receivers, headphones, and their skill to transcribe as quickly as possible, Lily is but one of a team of women stationed at Withernsea on the English shoreline, working daily to do their part for the cause.  Imagine her surprise, then, when she intercepts a truly curious transmission: one coming from a United States Naval officer originating 80 years later, in 2023. This is the main premise the drives this short story from the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Quinn.  The author is intimately familiar with the 1940s Y-Station setting, having previously penned […]

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