Mallworld Becomes Elektra

Forty years on from the frenetic consumer chaos of "Mallworld," trillionaire Sheldon barJulian receives word that he's inherited the shopping mall the size of a planetoid … and that it is being towed in to dock with his private estates on the peanut-shaped asteroid Elektra. The trouble is, no one has shopped in forty years. Indeed, most of the human race has been wiped out by a mysterious plague, and the galactic guardians of earth, the sexy Selespridar, have abandoned the system, leaving it locked inside its own pocket universe and throwing away the key.

When Sheldon learns from computer archives what shopping is, he's amazed that people ever congregated so unsafely. But when he explores the abandoned world, he meets one surprise after another … turning upside down everything he ever knew about his family, his species, his solar system, aliens, the galaxy, and the nature of spacetime.

Somtow's Mallworld stories of the 1980s were cult classics. Succumbing to demand from old fans, Somtow has decided to revisit that universe with a novella that turns the whole Mallworld universe inside out … and opens the doorway for many more stories.

Mallworld Becomes Elektra is published separately as an eBook, and available as a free limited print book only for those who become members of S.P. Somtow's patreon. It is also included in the new complete Mallworld edition, "Beyond Mallworld," also available on this platform.


Genre: Science Fiction