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Memory Seed Stephen Palmer
There is one city left, and soon that will be gone, for the streets of Kray are crumbling beneath a wave of exotic and lethal vegetation as it creeps south, threatening to wipe out the last traces of humanity. In the desperate… More
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The Spacetime Pit Plus Two Stephen Baxter et al.
The Spacetime Pit Plus Two collects three collaborative stories by two of science fiction’s finest writers. Never before published in one volume, the triptych showcases the authors’ ability to create… More
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Red Dot Irreal Jason Erik Lundberg
Travel to Southeast Asia on wings of the fantastic for Jason Erik Lundberg’s debut short-story collection Red Dot Irreal.
There you’ll meet pirates and shamans, wise fish and mystical storytellers, … More
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One of Us Iain Rowan
Shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger award.
Anna is one of the invisible people. She fled her own country when the police murdered her brother and her father, and now she serves… More
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The Fabulous Beast Garry Kilworth
A set of beautifully crafted tales of the imagination by a writer who was smitten by the magic of the speculative short story at the age of twelve and has remained under its spell ever since.
These few stories cover three… More
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Pilots of the Purple Twilight Kit Reed
The wives spent every day by the pool – this was where the men had left them, after all. A moving, incisive story that gets right under your skin from an author whose prose style has been described as “pure dry… More
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Approaching Omega Eric Brown
//~Mission to locate Earth-temperate planet for colonisation: failed…
//~1000 years out from Earth base, damage to colony sleeper hangars 1, 3 and 4 sustained … all lives lost … hangars 2 and 5 still… More
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Ghostwriting Eric Brown
Over the course of a career spanning twenty five years, Eric Brown has written just a handful of horror and ghost stories – and all of them are collected here. They range from the gentle, psychological chiller “The… More
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Meridian Days Eric Brown
‘I survive. I live from day to day – a Meridian day which humanity has created from one eternal stretch of daylight.’
Meridian, twenty light years from Earth and with just a tiny scattering of inhabitable… More
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Penumbra Eric Brown
When a young tug pilot’s career is ruined by a collision in Earth orbit he has no choice but to accept a commission to fly an eccentric ship builder to planet far from the trade routes. When they discover alien ruins… More
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The Angels of Life and Death Eric Brown
The Angels of Life and Death collects ten science fiction stories from two times winner of the BSFA short story award Eric Brown. From cyberpunk visions of post-human futures to traditional tales of alien encounter … More
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The People of the Sea Keith Brooke
Until he found the mermaid it had been a normal day for Joseph Wheatley: on leaving his house he had found something vile smeared across the door, and later some children in the street had called names and thrown a few stones.… More
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The Time-Lapsed Man and other stories Eric Brown
He made a sound of pleasure as the hot water needled his tired skin. Yet he heard nothing. The silence was more absolute than any he had experienced before. After more than fifty shifts, a lifetime among the stars, this … More
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A Restless Wind Shahrukh Husain
Zara Hamilton leads an apparently charmed life as a human rights lawyer in London – but she is haunted by questions about her past. Why did her mother disappear? What made her college sweetheart, the Maharaja of… More
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Tomorrow Nick Gifford
Tomorrow: a future only you can see; a future only you can save…
When fifteen-year-old Luke’s father dies, his eccentric family threatens to descend into chaos. Luke distracts himself by helping to sort… More
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Piggies Nick Gifford
A freak storm transports Ben to a parallel world inhabited by vampires. He manages to escape to the woods where others like him (called ferals by the vampires) hide. As he begins to give up hope of ever getting home, Ben … More