Short Fiction Highlight: "His Master's Voice" by Hannu Rajaniemi

Finnish writer Hannu Rajaniemi‘s story, “His Master’s Voice” (originally published in Interzone), is now available as a podcast on Escape Pod.

Before the concert, we steal the Master’s head. The Necropolis is a dark forest of concrete mushrooms in the blue Antarctic night. We huddle inside the utility fog level attached to the steep southern wall of the ice valley. The cat washes itself with a pink tongue. It reeks of infinite confidence.

“Get ready,” I tell it. “We don’t have all night.”

It gives me a moderately offended look, and dons its armor.

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