Ma Qui

"Ma Qui" is a 1991 fantasy/horror story by American writer Alan Brennert. It was first published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Plot summary

After an American soldier is killed in the Viet Nam War, he must find his way to the afterlife — if the ma qui, Vietnamese "angry ghosts", will let him.

Reception

"Ma Qui" won the 1991 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.[1] Kirkus Reviews called it "wrenching".[2]

gollark: We don't actually need paired fluxducts, due to that quirk of their transfer rates. I think.
gollark: Anyway, we can probably just run some itemducts in the planned power cabling tunnels, so it's not too problematic.
gollark: Unless you make the reactor building very big.
gollark: For wiring from the reactor to cells, we can afford most things.
gollark: So if you feed the reactor output straight into a cell and make the cell output into three fluxducts, you could have the actual long range wiring carry all the power, but each machine would only receive 1kRF/t max unless you have a bunch of connections on that machine.

References
  1. 1991 Nebula Awards, at Science Fiction Writers of America; retrieved September 21, 2018
  2. BEST NEW HORROR 3 by Stephen Jones, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews; published July 15, 1992; archived online May 20, 2010; retrieved September 21, 2018
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