Elsewhere

• Fiction by authors A to F and G to M.
• Fiction contents.

• Hooks, Nets and Time. Zayder runs a shark farm in the South China Sea. But he soon finds out that the owner has other uses for the shark station... [Size: 52Kb]
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• Dreams of the Compass Rose: The Miracles of Ris. Ris: the Bringer of Stillness and Water, the Bright-Eyed Liberator, the Mad Sovereign of Wisdom. But it is unknown whether Ris is god or demon, messiah or trickster, man or woman or child... [Size: 62Kb]
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• Coppola's Dracula. It's the 1970s and the first ever movie of Stoker's Dracula is being filmed in Romania. But what do the vampires think? A quick-firing and intelligent novella set in the alternate history of Newman's Anno Dracula. [Size: 114Kb]
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• The McCarthy Witch Hunt ...quite literally. The McCarthy era may have singled out the entertainment industry, but its effects were far wider. An everyday story of Manhattan witches, the Second World War and gun-toting churchmen. [Size: 71Kb]
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• The Pierce-Arrow Stalled, and.... A history Twentieth Century cinema ... as it might easily have been. Short fiction with an afterword by the author. [Size: 37Kb]
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• Bodyguard of Lightning. An extract from the novel. Queen Jennesta is waiting, and she's not the patient type. So she has to entertain herself... (not for the faint-hearted). [Size: 26Kb]
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• Throwing a Wobbly. Well, hello, big boy. A dark and funny story about a world where everything has changed for the bigger. [Size: 45Kb]
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• The Harvest. Had its instincts failed it? No: there were bacteria, protozoa, amino acids. Life. Food. An extract from the novel. [Size: 28Kb]
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• Metabolism. The city had eyes. It watched Elise from the glass squares set into its walls... No one ever escaped. [Size: 33Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: November 2000 --

• The Future of Birds. Life in paradise is Estela's reward; it is the way she profits from the disease. But the price of paradise can be high... Disturbing, explicit and very, very good. [Size: 70Kb]
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• A Soldier's Things. "Some, like Joe ... even when they run they have no choice: I seek them out and return them to the fold." [Size: 53Kb]
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• Bat Boy. Until the day the boy brought home the bat, he had never surprised his father... A short and moving story about the awful weight of parental expectations. [Size: 20Kb]
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• Whensday. Opposites, time's direction and spelling. Another masterful, original miniature from Patrick O'Leary. [Size: 18Kb]
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• The Burden Of Indigo. The boy was all alone now, excited by his first trip outside the Shield, but also apprehensive. The night held much to fear... An extract from the novel. [Size: 49Kb]
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• Heavenly Bodies. 'Get a virgin,' the angel Gabriel had been told. But they're not so easy to find these days... [Size: 9Kb]
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• Flowercrash. How long will the cyborgs sleep? A thousand years, and when they wake they will re-mould society. An extract from the novel. [Size: 56Kb]
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• Hallucinating. The music has mutated over the last twenty years ... it has become something else. An extract from the novel. [Size: 47Kb]
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• Muezzinland: prelude. Two friends seeking a runaway sister ... but the Empress and her transputer shaman are after them and there agents could be anywhere. An extract from the novel. [Size: 61Kb]
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• Muezzinland: Ouagadougou. A Ghanaian princess follows her runaway sister through an exotically transformed future Africa. A second extract from the novel. [Size: 34Kb]
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• Tales from the Spired Inn: The Green Realm Below. Kytanquil is a drifter, a misfit, but she's harmless nonetheless. So why do the mysterious inhabitants of the Garden want to see her? Destiny and gardening for post-humans. [Size: 33Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 1999 --

• The Tourist. Everybody wants to see the future, but of course they can't. They get turned back at the border. Time travel sf from the author of Celestis and Soldiers of Paradise. [Size: 58Kb]
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• Flies. She lay flat on her belly in a heap of decaying corpses -- a lucky survivor, some might say. And then, at night, she heard the voices... [Size: 62Kb]
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• The Heart of the Overchild. Cheri is pretty sure that her parents will win the appeal. They've assured her of that much. But it's Cheri's legal right to undergo the surgery if she chooses. [Size: 42Kb]
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• Python. While Faith is in New Orleans, for three weeks, she is black. It's only later she learns this is impossible. [Size: 43Kb]
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• Trading Polaris. "You were gone. I was afraid I'd never see you again, for you'd disappeared into that yellow fog as though into a cloud that might carry you away..." [Size: 42Kb]
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• A Woman's Bones. They came to dig up the bones, not to listen to words of warning... [Size: 57Kb]
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• Backlash. The Torquoins are extinct, all apart from Blueflame, a 'servicer' in the shabbiest town on the planet. At least, so everyone thinks until the stranger comes to town. [Size: 39Kb]
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• Phlon Xi. In Phlon Xi the survivors of the epidemic make their home. In Phlon Xi the intelligence agencies' high tech surveillance technologies fail. And so Major Choy is sent in... [Size: 33Kb]
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• Wormhole Magic. Unexpected visitors.... [Size: 41Kb]
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• Distant Galaxies Colliding. She will never again see the light of distant galaxies... [Size: 19Kb]
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• Six Lights off Green Scar. Sal Dervish, master of an old roulette ship, trying to forget. Always, trying to forget... [Size: 58Kb]
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• Looking for Mr Nobody. If he'd done it properly he'd have had back-up, an escape plan, at least. But now ... there was no way out. Except feet first, maybe. An extract from the sf/crime novel. [Size: 32Kb]
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• The Baby Merchant. You don't really want to know what Tom Starbird does. You don't care what he does, as long as he can help you. Starbird is your last hope... Novel extract. [Size: 43Kb]
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• Bronze. On the surface, the Benedict place is picture-perfect Old South, but look beneath that surface and you'll find that things are much darker... Novel extract. [Size: 45Kb]
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• Freezing Geezers. Everybody wants to live forever, but in order to do this well you should always pre-die while still young and good looking. [Size: 32Kb]
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• The New You. The adverts promise all kinds of things, but can they promise happiness? A story from Kit's collection, Weird Women, Wired Women. [Size: 26Kb]
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• Old Soldiers. In the room across the hall the old soldier shouts, just as he has done for years... [Size: 52Kb]
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• Pilots of the Purple Twilight. The wives spent every day by the pool -- this was where the men had left them, after all. [Size: 38Kb]
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• Playmate. The little boy who plays with Danny is just so good. In fact, he's pretty much perfect. And he has a strangely powerful influence on Danny. [Size: 31Kb]
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• Thinner Than Thou. The Reverend Earl promised salvation and JM Devlin bit... welcome to Sylphania, AZ. [Size: 41Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: June 2004--

• A Spy in Europa. To get to Europa you either had to be sickeningly rich or sickeningly poor. Vargovic's cover was the former... [Size: 63Kb]
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• Chasm City. Sky had never been in the freight bay before, and it could mean only one thing: they were going outside. An extract from Alastair Reynolds' second novel.. [Size: 51Kb]
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• Spirey and the Queen. There's a war going on -- a war that spans a galaxy and has lasted centuries. Spirey and Yarrow are on a mission: track down and destroy a rebel starship. Only things are never so simple in war... [Size: 72Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: August 1998 --

• Red Hands, Black Hands. The skin around the stranger's eyes and mouth was pale in comparison to his sun-darkened cheeks and forehead. He must have been out on the high plains, where the air was still thin and where breather-masks and goggles were still a necessity. [Size: 56Kb]
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• Here, There and Everywhere. Neither belonged in this era, but she at least was welcome. She was a traveller, but he was a castaway, or worse, an invader. An extract from the novel. [Size: 39Kb]
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• Balancing. An offer from the Devil with no strings attached? Pur-lease... [Size: 56Kb]
  
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• The Ice Submarine. Deep in the Antarctic ice, even their heat might give them away to Satanic Western satellites. The Captain must be cautious, even as the submarine's systems start to malfunction... [Size: 54Kb]
  
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• Salt. Shall I tell you the intimacy of living during the year of acceleration? The constant presence of other people, the lack of privacy such that privacy became a distantly remembered concept... An extract from a striking debut novel. [Size: 36Kb]
  
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• The Time Telephone. 'This is your mother, Marianne.' It's an expensive call ... a call from the past. [Size: 31Kb]
  
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• War of Another World. Pro-war or anti? Even the Martians aren't all behind the war effort... [Size: 19Kb]
  
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• Sand in the Nanotech. He reached into the Assembler's guts and found only sand. The nanomachines were failing... [Size: 55Kb]
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• Golden. Broken relationship, the dotcom crash... Life could have been so different. Perhaps it still could.... [Size: 40Kb]
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• A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations. The Twentieth Century: an age of mass destruction and suffering. Frank Churchill: a historian, an author charged with summing up this period. A powerful reflection on what we have been, what we are and what we might become by one of SF's finest authors. [Size: 80Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 1999 --

• The Wild Boy. The tribal elders claimed they needed Lindauzi-speakers, but no-one dared speak it aloud. It was the speech of nightmares, of the furred monster aliens, the Human-killers. An extract from a debut novel. [Size: 38Kb]
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• Don Ysidro. Some people put everything into their work. [Size: 19Kb]
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• Half of the Empire. Lost in a strange town, all he wanted was a place to spend the night. [Size: 25Kb]
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• Recovering the Body. He has to fetch the body. That's what his mother told him. [Size: 15Kb]
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• Visions of Gingerbread. 'Tis the season to be jolly. And enlightened... [Size: 18Kb]
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• Flying into Naples. An old flame, a holiday in Naples ... dark passion in the shadow of Vesuvius. [Size: 37Kb]
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• The Cast. Weird happenings on -- and off -- the football pitch. [Size: 35Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: July 1997 --

• Millennium Babies. The message was addressed to her by her former name, sent with unusually strict security... And it had something to do with the time of her birth: five minutes into the year 2000. An extract from the Hugo-shortlisted novelette. [Size: 59Kb]
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• Just Drive, She Said. When she's holding a gun to your head, what else can you do? [Size: 47Kb]
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• Air. Mae lived in the last village in the world to go online. After that, everyone else went on Air. An extract from the novel. [Size: 60Kb]
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• The Aspirant. She wants to be just like the Rhymer, Artemis. And she'll go to any lengths... [Size: 47Kb]
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• Panaphasia. He called it the Panaphasia - a plague of silence. But why had he and Nathan been spared? [Size: 39Kb]
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• Nuns in Love. Sister Angelica has a pet raven and a thing about Edgar Allan Poe... A story that's both weird and oh-so-dark. [Size: 25Kb]
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• The God of Forgotten Things. Remembering ... before it's all too late. [Size: 34Kb]
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• A Servant of Satan: a Gothic tale. Young Cunningham did it to prove his love for the beautiful Sophie-Marie Devereaux. He didn't think to wonder what stealing the skull may lead to... An essay about the writing of this novelette, The Story of a Revision, is available elsewhere on this site. [Size: 70Kb]
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• Echo. The first time he heard it, the plaintive cry sounded like the wail of a tortured prisoner. [Size: 18Kb]
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• The Jaguar Hunter. Esteban has a debt, or rather, his wife has a debt. But there is a way to pay... [Size: 79Kb]
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• The Practical Ramifications of Interstellar Packet Loss. So many of them arrive at Netherview Station with literally nothing. Some arrive with even less... [Size: 32Kb]
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• The Rodney King Global Mass Media Artwork. One day, suddenly, they were there, all over town, billboards bearing a single sentence: "Remember when we were free?" Science fiction from a Portuguese master of the peculiar. [Size: 40Kb]
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• Telling Stories in the Dark. He raced through the house, locking and bolting the doors and windows, drawing the shades ... but the night would not be denied. [Size: 28Kb]
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• see: LH Maynard and MPN Sims.

• Assassin. Most cops would have dismissed it as just another suicide, but the evidence doesn't quite add up: is someone using the Net for murder? [Size: 39Kb]
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• Cassilago's Wife. All the hiker wanted was a place to pitch his tent for the night. But Cassilago's wife might have more to offer... [Size: 35Kb]
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• The Ravelling. Sometimes death is a release, but sometimes the dead themselves must be released. [Size: 33Kb]
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• The Destiny Mask. She had to look into the future, whatever the consequences... An extract from the novel. [Size: 16Kb]
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• The Liberty Gun. Captured by the Serriatts... how much to tell them and how much do they know? [Size: 23Kb]
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• Dying in Hull. The city is sinking, but Ethel Endicott Cobb hangs on. How could she possibly leave? With an afterword by the author. [Size: 49Kb]
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• The Boys Are Back in Town. The quiet little tavern served harpies, centaurs, fawns, cyclops and even the occasional twentieth century humans. Keeping it a quiet little tavern, and not a news feature, required special measures. [Size: 52Kb]
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• Going Harvey in the Big House. Big G's new cube was too big: he was used to sleeping in a drawer... And worse: he was starting his shift with a Harvey. [Size: 52Kb]
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• New Year's Eve. The Millennium Bug as it might well have happened. [Size: 54Kb]
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• The Red Bird. Asai was chosen by the Red Bird on the night the soldiers burnt his village. He was to be its thousandth defender. [Size: 47Kb]
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• Spirit Dance. Protests against loggers take a dark turn when innocents are killed and ancient spirits involved. Award-winning fantasy from a John W Campbell Award shortlisted author. [Size: 56Kb]
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• The Face in the Flame. It was worth taking a detour through the woods to avoid being bust along with the local dealer... [Size: 51Kb]
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• In the Flesh. It's Jennifer's birthday, so why should her mother worry when a strange boy brings her a present? A boy who seems to know Jennifer so well... [Size: 62Kb]
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• An Oasis of Horror. Charles Baudelaire took a deep breath and pressed the blade into his chest, prepared as it is possible to be for his own undeath. [Size: 58Kb]
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• A Colder War. Roger isn't a soldier. He's not much of a patriot, either. He's just scared when 20 pages of sheer terror land on his CIA desk. [Size: 101Kb]
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• The Question Eaters. When you think in another language, the thoughts themselves are different. When the language belongs to another species the effect is more extreme... [Size: 34Kb]
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• The Emperor's Backscratcher. At last: history has been defeated, all that could be done is done. But one problem remains... [Size: 35Kb]
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• Me-Too. Edward was an only -- 'Scientific Subclassification: Creative Diverse'. His parents should have known better... [Size: 43Kb]
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• Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson in the Cévennes. Words of wisdom come from the unlikeliest sources, if only we thought to listen. [Size: 43Kb]
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• Temptation of the Seven Scientists. Seven scientists in search of a Great Theory - a magical tale of discovery. [Size: 23Kb]
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• The Wages of Food-Play. Some people just won't appreciate the fruits of God's kitchen. [Size: 29Kb]
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• The Hate Machines. Cardiff owned two similar hate receptacles: his Whipping Boy at home and a newly purchased Scapegoat... A new Punktown story. [Size: 32Kb]
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• The Library of Sorrows. Nothing a murderer could tell MacDiaz in interview revealed so much as the decor of their apartment, he had found. Nothing could help him forget, either... [Size: 42Kb]
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