Shadow Flock • 2014 • Near SF novelette by Greg Egan

★★★

Meta: isfdb. This near SF novelette appeared 2014 in the short anthology Coming Soon Enough. It was re-published in The Best SF&F of the Year 2015.

Synopsis: A tense SF heist thriller centered around the idea of using drones to pick up wallets containing authentication keys for bitcoins. Main protagonist Nathalie is an expert in programming drones. She is blackmailed into service by a group of criminals.

Review:  Resourceful female protagonist, nicely flowing tension arc, fine enough setting. It would have fit in Twelve Tomorrows 2014 with its near future topic. Nothing experimental, straight narration.

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