Four out of seven ain’t bad

A couple of weeks ago a small package wrapped up in brown paper came through the letterbox and turned out to have a couple of complementary copies of the latest edition of NewCon Press’s Best of British Science Fiction.  And very nice to see my name at the top of the list, even if only for alphabetical reasons. Regardless, it does give me a small tingling of pride and assurance I must be getting something right some of the time. My fourth appearance since the series launched in 2017 (with the 2016 edition; I still find the retrospective titling confusing - the Car of the Year gets announced that April, and if a sci-fi best of can’t be forward looking, what can?). 

The book launch will be live across Planet Earth on YouTube at 7.30pm Tuesday 25th July.  Hope to see you there.

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2084 - The Meschera Bandwidth

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

Twenty-four slipstream stories.  Frequently absurd, often minimifidian, occasionally heroic.

New Kids on the Block

Apparently, a cosmorama is an exhibition of perspective pictures, typically of famous landmarks or cityscapes, a sort of static Imax cinema screen image from when cinema was just misspelled Ancient Greek.  Who knew?

But Cosmorama is also a new online magazine that's been putting short speculative fiction for free on their website since late last month, and my story, Some of us are Going on a Bear Hunt, of how Kamala, a call centre operator, outsmarted the bigots, has been selected to join them.  Look out for it.

I wish them well.

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2084 - The Meschera Bandwidth

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

Twenty-four slipstream stories.  Frequently absurd, often minimifidian, occasionally heroic.