![]() ![]() "The Highway Code," by Brian Sableford (Collected in Year's Best SF 15) "Artisanal Trucking, LLC," by Mary Robinette Kowal (In the March/April 2018 issue of Asimov's magazine.) "Off Road," by Harry Lang (In the September/October 2018 issue of Analog magazine.) Starrigger, by John DeChancie, and its sequels Red Limit Freeway and Paradox Alleyġ8 Wheels of Science Fiction, edited by Eric Miller (With eighteen genre stories.) (Self-publishing by truckers is a fast-growing effort, though unfortunately there's no effective quality control, no matter how much money the author shelled out.) ![]() With one or two exceptions, these are all commercially published texts, not 'vanity press' or self-published titles. There might be trucks around, but are they big-rigs, and central to the plot or protagonist? (I've decided to stick with trucks, as "four wheeler" automobile fiction is much more common.) (There's one story about a sentient truck, and one about a road crew.) These stories are so rare that I loosened the criterion for this list, to include tales that feature a trucker protagonist and/or a big truck, or a mobile armored vehicle, or some futuristic means of trucking. With thanks to Andy Duncan, plus the folks on the Analog magazine, Asimov's magazine, Realms of Fantasy magazine, Yard Dog Press, and Truckers Road forums, plus several Romance and Mystery discussion forums. Here is a list of truck driver themed novels, films, poems, and more, as compiled by Paul Carlson. ![]()
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