Lament for the Afterlife
No one knows when the war against the greys began. Not precisely. There are theories, speculations. everyone agrees, though, that airborne doom-bringers appear along with their invisible bombs – and disappear just as mysteriously. Governments, while they still can, launch investigations into the waves of energy sweeping from continent to continent, bringing human mutation and environmental destruction. They shepherd refugees from country to country. They do whatever they must to put an end to the fighting. Whispers have circulated for centuries: Where are the greys? When will they next strike? How many men remain true and how many are turncoats? How can you attack something you can’t see?
And secretly, fearfully: Are the greys even real?
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Lisa L. Hannett
Lisa's stories have appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, ChiZine, Shimmer and Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s Steampunk Reloaded, among other places. Her work has won three Aurealis Awards, and has appeared on Locus’s Recommended Reading List as well as in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror (2010, 2011, 2012), and Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction (2012, 2013).
Her first collection of short stories, Bluegrass Symphony, won the 2011 Aurealis Award for Best Collection, and has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.
