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The following titles are featured elsewhere on this site:
SANITY AND THE LADY
A novel by Brian Aldiss (Introduction by Ian R MacLeod)
"This is a very
British science fiction novel ... a powerful and moving read."
(Full review)
LIGHT STEALER
A novella by James Barclay (Introduction by Stan Nicholls)
"Septern is the
greatest mage ever -- and doesn't he know it ... Light Stealer
left a little too much lacking to entirely satisfy." (Full
review)
REALITY DUST
A novella by Stephen Baxter (Introduction by Greg Bear)
"British Radical
Hard SF at its best ... Serious, sharp, intelligently crafted and persuasively
argued, Making History and Reality Dust are excellent
Hard SF, fresh testimony to the technical mastery and visionary creativity
of their authors." (Full
[double] review)
DEAR ABBEY
A novella by Terry Bisson (Introduction by Brian W Aldiss)
"Stapledonian
fancy with a human face and extremist green sensibilities ...a fine
novella." (Full review)
R IS FOR ROCKET and S
IS FOR SPACE
Collections by Ray Bradbury (Introductions and Forewords by Ray
Harryhausen, Michael Marshall Smith, Sir Arthur C Clarke and Tim Powers)
"This is Ray
Bradbury. You shouldn't need to know anything more than that."
(Full review)
INFINITY PLUS ONE
An anthology edited by Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers
Stories by Michael Bishop, Tony Daniel, Paul Di Filippo, Mary Gentle,
James Patrick Kelly, Garry Kilworth, Ian MacLeod, Kim Newman, Patrick
O'Leary, Kit Reed, Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Swanwick and Jeff VanderMeer
(Introduction by Peter F. Hamilton)
Hardcover
Heartily recommended!
(Full details)
Also: read Kit Reed's "Old
Soldiers", a story first published in infinity plus one.
INFINITY PLUS TWO
An anthology edited by Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers
Stories by Adam Roberts, Ian McDonald, Lisa Goldstein, Stephen Baxter,
Michael Moorcock, Brian Stableford, Vonda N McIntyre, Charles Stross,
Paul Park, Paul McAuley, Eric Brown, Terry Bisson and Lucius Shepard
(Introduction by John Clute)
Hardcover
Heartily recommended!
(Best bought with volume one. Full details)
A WRITER'S LIFE
A novella by Eric Brown (Introduction by Paul Di Filippo)
"In favour of A Writer's Life is its authentic texture,
its astute evocations of literary frustration and an author's efforts
to reconcile his aesthetic and emotional worlds." (Full
review)
THE DARKEST PART OF THE WOODS
A novel by Ramsey Campbell (Introduction by Peter Straub)
"Campbell
is the finest writer of horror fiction in Britain ... the author's first
supernatural novel in some years, and it has been a pleasure to welcome
him home." (Full review)
THE OVERNIGHT
A novel by Ramsey Campbell
"A
mighty novel; a masterpiece, even." (Full
review)
RAMSEY CAMPBELL, PROBABLY
Essays & writings by Ramsey Campbell; edited by ST Joshi. (Introduction
by Douglas E Winter)
"The
finest piece of non-fiction horror that I have read. It is heartily
commended." (Full review)
THE FAIRY FELLER'S MASTER STROKE
A novella by Mark Chadbourn (Introduction by Neil Gaiman)
"A powerful story
about fantasy and our need for it ... a compelling, frightening and
moving story. Very impressive." (Full
review)
FUZZY DICE
A novel by Paul Di Filippo
"Full to bursting with ideas ... a gonzo philosophical SF odyssey for
the 21st century." (Full review)
A YEAR IN THE LINEAR CITY
A novella by Paul Di Filippo (Introduction by Michael Bishop)
"Fiction
of the highest order ... an author who genuinely comes close to defying
all attempts at description." (Full
review)
THE COSMOLOGY OF THE WIDER WORLD
A novella by Jeffrey Ford (Introduction by Jeff VanderMeer)
Read an extract, plus a foreword
written specially for this site.
OUT OF HIS MIND
A novella by Stephen Gallagher (Introduction by Brian Clemens)
"So fresh and
sparkling is Gallagher's writing style that it's hard to believe some
of the tales are almost ten years old. There's not a single piece that
I didn't like." (Full review)
WHITE BIZANGO
A novella by Stephen Gallagher (Introduction by Joe R Lansdale)
"This remarkable
little book is like a stranger's suitcase that you have picked up by
mistake." (Full review)
UNDER THE PENITENCE
A novella by Mary Gentle (Introduction by SM Stirling)
"Extraordinary
... The conclusion gives a sense of more questions raised than answered
but this is no bad thing." (Full
review)
JIGSAW MEN
A novella by Gary Greenwood (Introduction by Mark Chadbourn)
"This book should
have been better. It's good, don't get me wrong, but it should have
been better." (Full review)
WATCHING TREES GROW
A novella by Peter F. Hamilton (Introduction by Larry Niven)
"Echoing
the hugeness of scope of Peter F Hamilton's recent space operas,
but plotted like his earlier thrillers ... a memorable rendition of
the sort of sheer cognitive momentum that only SF can truly deliver."
(Full review)
BIBLIOMANCY: FOUR NOVELLAS
Elizabeth Hand (Introduction by Lucius Shepard)
"Writing of a
very high standard ... This is a major collection." (Full
review)
BY MOONLIGHT ONLY
An anthology edited by Stephen Jones
"Once
again Stephen Jones has been quite successful in assembling a remarkable
collection of classic and classy short stories." (Full
review)
KEEP OUT THE NIGHT
An anthology edited by Stephen Jones
"Despite
a few weak stories, a very good reprint anthology." (Full
review)
LENINGRAD NIGHTS
A novella by Graham Joyce (Introduction by Peter Straub)
"Inevitably,
because it is beautifully written, I did find myself wishing there were
more pages..." (Full [double]
review)
TWOC
A novella by Graham Joyce (Introduction by Rob Grant)
"A very adult
teen book, or a very teen adult book. And it's bloody good." (Full
review)
THE ASTONISHED EYE
A novel by Tracy Knight (Introduction by Philip José Farmer)
"This
book is, indeed, more interesting than a summary may lead you to believe,
but it is also less satisfying than it might have been." (Full
review)
GIG
A novella by James Lovegrove (Introductions by Eric Brown)
"A lovely book,
and three cheers to Lovegrove for writing and to PS for publishing a
pair of such novel novellas." (Full
review)
HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
A novella by James Lovegrove (Introduction by Colin Greenland)
"In many ways,
How The Other Half Lives is a simple story. What raises it above
the ordinary is the elegance and sophistication with which the story
is told." (Full [double] review)
THE HUMAN FRONT
A novella by Ken MacLeod (Introduction by Iain M Banks)
"I was disappointed
by The Human Front, not deeply and miserably, but just broadly..."
(Full review)
MAKING HISTORY
A novella by Paul J. McAuley (Introduction by Michael Swanwick)
"British Radical
Hard SF at its best ... Serious, sharp, intelligently crafted and persuasively
argued, Making History and Reality Dust are excellent Hard SF, fresh
testimony to the technical mastery and visionary creativity of their
authors." (Full [double]
review)
TENDELEO'S STORY
(Winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Award, 2001)
A novella by Ian McDonald (Introduction by Robert Silverberg)
"Tendeleo's
Story is a measure of McDonald's own creative evolution, now at
a very exciting juncture indeed ... gazes boldly into the heart of darkness,
and finds there a great and galvanising hope. No mean achievement."
(Full review)
THE TAIN
A novella by China Mieville (Introduction by M John Harrison)
"A China Mieville book which feels stripped down to its essentials
... can stand with the best work of another stylist of decaying empires,
Lucius Shepard." (Full review)
FIRING THE CATHEDRAL
A Jerry Cornelius novella by Michael Moorcock (Introduction by
Alan Moore)
"A surreal cut'n'pasted
gallop through a blackly comic near future ... a blisteringly satirical
look at the times and the state that we're in." (Full
review)
THE UGLIMEN
A short novel by Mark Morris (Introduction by Stephen Laws)
"A short tight
horror tale, lean of fat and efficiently told though hardly groundbreakingly
original." (Full review)
POSTSCRIPTS #1, Spring 2004
"Lived up to
my high expectations: an excellent magazine/anthology with some knockout
stories and fine non-fiction." (Full
review)
POSTSCRIPTS #3 & #4, Spring & Summer 2005
"It's great to
find a magazine that publishes such a diversity of genre and style in
every issue, to such a high standard." (Full
review)
POSTSCRIPTS #5, Autumn 2005
"The best fiction
magazines can be relied on to include, if not bad stories then
stories that just don't work for you, stories you don't get..." (Full
review)
DIAMOND DOGS
A novella by Alastair Reynolds (Introduction by Stephen Baxter)
"First-person narrative, fast-moving, with short chapters and a
claustrophobic setting ... the appeal of 'Dogs' is all in the telling,
and a large part of that is characterisation." (Full
review)
PARK POLAR
A novella by Adam Roberts (Introduction by Roger Levy)
"I suspect a longer work might develop theme and character more:
there's certainly room for expansion on both counts. But as it is, it's
an only intermittently engaging read." (Full
review)
VAO
A novella by Geoff Ryman (Introduction by Gwyneth Jones)
"VAO is a smart, funny tale about old age, Alzheimer's disease,
and crime in the near future ... wonderfully engaging." (Full
review)
FLOATER
A novella by Lucius Shepard (Introduction by Jeffrey Ford)
"From the very first sentence, you know this is going to be something
special." (Full review)
TRUJILLO AND OTHER STORIES
A short story collection by Lucius Shepard (Introduction by Michael
Swanwick)
"Even as a sampling of Shepard's output of the last few years this
is impressive." (Full review)
THE PERIODIC TABLE OF SCIENCE FICTION
A collection by Michael Swanwick (Introduction by Theodore W
Gray)
"Having been duly amazed that anyone (even a science fiction writer
of Swanwick's originality) would come up with the barking mad idea of
such a collection, I was then completely blown away by its content."
(Full review)
MY DEATH
A novella by Lisa Tuttle
"A meticulously constructed novella, quite wonderful in many ways."
(Full review)
IN SPRINGDALE TOWN
A novella by Robert Freeman Wexler
"An emotionally scathing yet tender insight into the frailty, ignorance,
and misplaced motivations of that most ridiculous of animals, the human
being ... [an] intriguing novella of self-identification, alienation,
and displacement." (Full
review)
NEARLY PEOPLE
A novella by Conrad Williams (Introduction by Michael Marshall
Smith)
"Like
Hieronymus Bosch or M. John Harrison, he is a painter of infernos, his
torments always briskly inventive, his grotesquerie always delineated
with flair ... cruelly brilliant, a dagger in the vitals. But such an
elegant dagger, this exaggerated gleaming stiletto!" (Full
review)
TWELVE COLLECTIONS AND THE TEASHOP
A story-suite by Zoran Zivkovic
Read a story from this book, plus
Tamar Yellin's Talented Dreamer:
an appreciation of the fiction of Zoran Zivkovic.
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