Selected Singles: Conspiracies

If you go to the northern end of Praslin Island in the Seychelles, a thousand miles off the coast of East Africa, there’s every likelihood that you’ll chance upon a pudgy, gray-haired man holding a cigar in one hand and a cold drink in the other. You can nod a greeting to him, but if you try to start up a conversation, you may find yourself spending the next few years in a jail on Mahe, the main island in the chain.

So we figure it’s our job to tell you who he is and what he’s doing there

A humorous VERY CONDENSED novel — now about thirteen pages, and not very long pages at that — by SF humor masters Eric Flint and Mike Resnick.