Fragments

Fragments is an Anthology of collected works that define a decades-long career of a South African Speculative Fiction author, where each short story originates in a different decade, and collected side-by-side serves to track the development of the author’s hallmark Voice. FRAGMENTS reflect the mid-point works of these four decades.

This collection includes the Short Stories: Inferno: Trouble brews in the idyllic matriarchy. How any society deals with its dissidents is a measure of its maturity, and power and ideals are often uneasy bedfellows. Fragments of Morning: An Ode to Insomnia. What keeps you awake at night? Lawman: The crime-beleaguered city of eGoli in the near future has one sentinel; Ndou, the Lawman. No Heart for the Matter: Myths being what they are, are often simply accepted. What if the truth behind the myths of Lucifer is even stranger? The Folk and the Shellmen: The SS Kristos makes first contact with an ancient, technologically sophisticated alien society. This is that story. El D’Or Dieux: Bonus extract from Omnipresent Occultation.

Fragments represent the best of Caldon Mull’s short works around the middle of each of these decades and is the second volume in the ‘Smithereens’ format series for this type of work.

Author Biography

Caldon Mull is the pen name of a veteran storyteller with African continent-spanning work experience consulting for the financial and military sectors. His work includes his primary series the ‘Sol Senate Cycle’ and his time-tripping fantastika series ‘Agency Tales’. His fiction work has received ‘honorable mention’ over the years beginning with the 1986 Writers of the Future contest and from the SFSA Nova Award over later decades. He has been published in Omenana, RPGA Network, the SFSA Probe and several other, now-defunct local publications. He has been a shortlist nominee for the Nommo Award by the African Speculative Fiction Society on occasion. He is most comfortable writing Genre-bending work that follows the form of his african storytelling heritage. He currently is resident in Finland with his wife and many cats.