Karl Gantner, writer

Karl Gantner

Karl Gantner

Karl Gantner writes speculative fiction — science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction — and essays on the ideas underneath it: consciousness, mathematics, evolution and history.

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Fiction

  • Killing a Tiger

    A (very) short story about a man deliberating about what extraterrestrial intelligent life would really be about. First published in Analog Science Fiction Magazine.

  • The Species Mill

    History is a weapon, and Taukudo—an historian traveling between solar systems aboard an interstellar trade ship—is about to discover its power.

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Essays

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