Gremlin

1943. Natalia Voronova is flying a Yak-3 fighter plane when she encounters something…strange. Otherwordly. A creature who eats metal and wrecks machines in mid-air. Who saves her life in the deadly skies over Stalingrad.

So begins a saga about a family of pilots that stretches for generations, from World War II, to Iraq, and far into the future and the stars.

Award-winning author Carrie Vaughn delivers her own take on this mythical creature of the modern age: the Gremlin.

This novella originally appeared in the May/June 2019 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction