Chasing New Suns

Collected Stories

Seven tales of mind, heart, and spirit from award winning science fiction writer Lance Robinson.

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Short Fiction

Interconnections and Porous Boundaries. Appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, May-June 2025.

Oxygen and carbon, instead of cycling back into the atmosphere where the humans and our livestock and the plants could breathe them… were lurking in dead twigs and leaves and rootlets and pond scum. Our ecosystem’s dominos had started to topple and our life support was on life support.  Subscribe to Analog at: www.analogsf.com.  Or you can order this particular issue of the magazine here.

 Money, Wealth, and Soil.  Appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, May-June 2024.

“This unusually thoughtful look at the way in which greed, for lack of a better word, can be used for good or bad offers appealing characters and intriguing speculative technology” – Tangent Online.

Where new grassland was spreading into the southern limit of the forest, and new forest was spreading into the southern limit of the tundra, they were impoverished versions of their parent ecosystems. Subscribe to Analog at: www.analogsf.com.  Single issues may be available from Magzter (electronic) or from Amazon (print).

Five Days Until Sunset. Appeared in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 40, 2004.

“Anthropologically fascinating” – Tangent Online

Our exodus family awoke on the new world—a paradise inexplicably teeming with Earth life, the Promise fulfilled. But 154 of us are missing. . . .  Available in print, e-book, and audiobook.

Chasing the Sun.  Appeared in GateWay S-F Magazine, Winter 2005, web issue no. 11.

To we Cheshlom, horses are one of the races of blessed people, so fast that for them keeping up with the setting sun as it circles the world is easy; so fast that they need have no fear of falling behind and being swallowed by the night, unlike human beings…. I realized that sitting on the back of that horse he would have the luxury of traveling one trek out of twenty and could use the other nineteen to hunt or to simply rest. . .  Available in Chasing New Suns.

The Thursday Plan.  Appeared in Chaos Theory: Tales Askew, Fall/Winter 2004-2005, issue no. 6.

Looking back to his body, he sees two—two bodies in two very different worlds. One world he knows very well for he has lived it, but beyond it his other self is neither screaming nor writhing on the floor.  As he begins to access his memories from this alternate world, he sees that it is a saner place in which Apartheid is more than a decade dead. He tries to approach it but is blocked by a solid wall of pain. And the pain continues, until. . .   Available in Chasing New Suns.

Magic.  Appeared in Wonderdisk.  1994, vol. 7.0.

They came, I was told, because Katanga is the only world that is in the right place.  Their home was in the band of stars that we see in our sky in the month of bagulu and they wanted one day to go to the band of stars that we see in the month of nguslu.  Katanga is inbetween.

Problem Solving.  Appeared in Tales of the Unanticipated, Fall/Winter 1991-1992, issue no. 9.

D.K. was sure that he had been taken prisoner because of his nasty remarks about the aliens, their federation, and their gadgets, but once he was aboard the mother ship he learned the truth. He was presented to an alien who looked a little more like Queen Victoria and whose lisp was a little worse than the other aliens…  Available in Chasing New Suns.

Communion.  Appeared in Riverside Quarterly, July 1990, vol. 8, no. 4.

“Lance Robinson’s ‘Communion’ stood out in this issue [of Riverside Quarterly]”
– a columnist in the fanzine FactSheet 5.

Matt looked back at the tiny space station. He could still see the cross of the spokes, and the cross reminded him of his guilt…. But although he remembered his sin, he felt no guilt now. Somehow, guilt seemed to have no place here. . .   Available in Chasing New Suns.

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