Two announcements today, which I'd like you imagine being made by Queen Victoria whilst waving a union flag in each hand. Because it's all very British.
Firstly, my story 'Thus With a Kiss I Die', first run off printing presses somewhere deep in the colonies, has been picked for the 2024 edition of The Best of British Science Fiction - confusingly titled Best of British Science Fiction 2023. It's my fifth appearance since the series first appeared in 2017 with, yes, '2016' on the cover. Not for me to reason why.
Pre-order it here.
Both are due out this summer.
Three cheers for Albion, and I'll tell my man to clean your kit.
My Thoughts are with You. Your Thoughts are with the Authorities for Calibration Against Societal Norms.
Award-nominated science fiction and slipstream author Robert Bagnall’s second anthology of twenty-four stories, variously bleak, funny, bleakly funny or – very occasionally – optimistic.
2084. The world remains at war.
In the Eurasian desert, twenty-year old Adnan emerges from a coma with memories of a strictly ordered city of steel and glass, and a woman he loved.
The city is the Dome, and the woman... is Adnan's secret to keep.
Adnan learns what the Dome is, and what his role really was within it. He learns why everybody fears the Sickness more than the troopers. And he learns why he is the only one who can stop the war.
Persuaded to re-enter the Dome to implant a virus that will bring the war machine to its knees, the resistance think that Adnan is returning to free the many - but really he wants to free the one.
24 0s & a 2
“Brilliant stories, well written!” (five stars, Amazon).
