The Lucky Ones Will be Replaced by Software

I'm enormously chuffed to report that William Holly have published a third - yes, third! - collection of my short stories, gathered up in the main from those that first appeared in a variety of anthologies and magazines in 2022 and 2023.

Available NOW!! in ones and zeroes, or dead tree that is slightly less environmentally damaging than traditional dead tree, it's called The Lucky Ones Will be Replaced by Software and contains twenty-four speculative, science-fiction, horror and otherwise hard to pigeonhole stories.

These include the novella 'The Credo of Comrade January', and 'Sunrunner', selected for The Best of British Science Fiction 2022 ("An ending that will stay with me for a while" Amazon, "A beautiful story of artistic yearning and science. One of my favourites here" Goodreads).

With a bit of luck, I'll have some physical copies to wave in front of the camera at next weekend's online launch of Slab Press's Screams and Wails. It'd be great if you can join us - 7pm (GMT) on the 1st of November. If not - buy a copy of that one too!

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My Thoughts are with You. Your Thoughts are with the Authorities for Calibration Against Societal Norms

Meet a man mistaken for a robot, a robot which learns the meaning of irony the hard way, a Frankenstein’s monster with a future in tailoring, a talking cat, a talking car, several time travellers, and a host of other characters.

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 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.

“Brilliant stories, well written!” (five stars, Amazon).