This awesome short story anthology from NewCon Press was originally going to be one volume that included science fiction/fantasy tales about London past, present and future. However, it was eventually split in two, with Volume 1, Soot & Steel, already available on the NewCon Press website. The book I’m in is about London future. Me […]
THE SHORTLIST There are always oddities – Simon Stalenhag’s The Electric State for example. Was it a novel? Did the pictures matter? Did it have enough words? Were we coming up with reasons not to shortlist it because we think we should? The fact was that we all loved it, it used a novel form […]
‘The Beauty’ is a deceptively simple novella about the last men eking out a survivalist existence following the death from plague of their – and by implication all – women. The book’s sparse, elegant prose details the frictions and relationships of this truncated, hopeless little patriarchy as they stave off hopelessness with routine and the […]
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