Fruiting Bodies

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English language

Published Jan. 25, 2022 by Tom Doherty Associates.

ISBN:
978-1-250-83541-3
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In Kemi Ashing-Giwa's stunning post-apocalyptic short story, "Fruiting Bodies", a Tor.com Original, an alien fungal infection has ravaged a faraway planet, turning all but six of the colonists into ravenous alarinkiri.

Inyama, a mycologist, is her species' last hope. But it's not expertise her fellow survivors want from her.

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A horror SF story involving fungus and survival.

On an alien world, where parasitic fungus have decimated a colony, the last few survivors hold prisoner the only person who can save them. The only person who can save her shows one way to survive on the hellish world populated by the zombies the fungus makes out of people before spreading.