Forest of Memory by Mary Kowal

Forest of Memory by Mary Kowal

Katya deals in Authenticities and Captures, trading on nostalgia for a past long gone. Her clients are rich and they demand items and experiences with only the finest verifiable provenance. Other people's lives have value, after all.

But when her A.I. suddenly stops whispering in her ear she finds herself cut off from the grid and loses communication with the rest of the world.

The man who stepped out of the trees while hunting deer cut her off from the cloud, took her A.I. and made her his unwilling guest.

There are no Authenticities or Captures to prove Katya's story of what happened in the forest. You'll just have to believe her.

Mary Robinette Kowal won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2008 and was nominated for a Hugo Award for her short Evil Robot Monkey. Strange Horizons, Asimov's, and other Year's Best collections have published her short work. Mary is a member of the Board of Directors of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She grew born in North Carolina and spent five years touring nationwide with puppet theatre as a professional puppeteer and voice performer. While residing in Iceland and performing on the hit television show Lazytown, she penned Shades of Milk and Honey. Mary and her husband Rob live in Portland, Oregon, with nine manual typewriters.