Ansible 15716 (Season 1, Episode 2) (The Ansible Stories)

Ansible 15715 was sent to a nightmare world that threatened to devour her, a world of endless dark. But the Ansible 15716 team is sent to a planet that burns beneath a white-hot sun ... a saline desert where immense objects loom on the horizon, completely buried beneath a hundred meters of salt.

When this team's sole survivor finds himself stranded in an alien body, among an alien race, he must search for some connection with home -- or for some connection with this desert species, on a planet so vast, it makes the mind itself a desert.

"If, as the first of these stories, 15715 has slightly higher conceptual stakes, then 15716 may be the more precisely rendered of the two, just a whisper more realized in the singularity of language that breathes it into being. I only wish that Stant Litore could write as fast as I read." - Jason Kirk, author of Reverb and The Other Whites in South Africa

PRAISE FOR THE ANSIBLE STORIES:

"From an Alien-style eerie dread to a desolate existential longing, the Ansible series skitters along a spectrum of science fiction promise that will in turn thrill, terrify, and spook you. I have never wanted to stay home more." - Melissa Olson, author of Dead Spots

"Litore's elegant prose seeps into the soul, stoking our fears of dark labyrinths and the loss of self, of having our direst warnings passed off as madness in a cruel and ignorant world. A chilling and masterful tale." - Allison M. Dickson, author of Strings

"Stant Litore truly weaves a spellbinding story that leaves the reader feeling vulnerable. It is impossible not to become drawn into the world that Stant created..." - Heather Maloney, examiner.com