Catastrophia
Edited by Allen Ashley. Introduction by Allen Ashley. Cover art by Les Edwards.
Did you grow up on a diet of catastrophe novels? Classics such as "War of the Worlds", "Death of Grass", "Day of the Triffids", "Greybeard", "The Purple Cloud" and so forth? Did you hone your teen angst through a diet of disaster stories?
This book won't exactly take you back to that Golden Age... because the purpose of "Catastrophia" is to revitalise this sub-genre of Science Fiction for the early twenty-first century. To bring a modern sensibility and craft to the business of ending the world as we know it. These days, there's plenty of catastrophe on screen – whether it be at the cinema or on TV – but we have somewhat let the subject slip in the literary world. No longer!
Award-winning editor Allen Ashley has collected 18 brilliant brand new stories from a mix of established and emerging authors that will take you way beyond Wyndham and well past Wells. Catastrophe stories are alive and kicking.
Buy this book, read this book... while we still have a world in which to do so!
Contents:
- Fade – David Gullen
- A Hard Place – Carole Johnstone
- Up – Andrew Hook
- Stephen's Boat – Billie Bundschuh
- Noose – Adam Roberts
- Check – Robert Guffey
- Something For Nothing – Joe Essid
- The Phoney War – Nina Allan
- Happy Ending – Simon Clark
- Nanoamerica – David John Baker
- Pixels on a Screen – Patrick Shuler
- Scalped – Jet McDonald
- Gravity Wave – Douglas Thompson
- In The Face of Disaster – Ian Sales
- Trouble With Telebrations – Tim Nickels
- The Long Road to the Sea – James L. Sutter
- Crashes – Stuart Young
- Hapless Humanity – Brian W. Aldiss
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Allen Ashley
One of the most distinctive voices in modern literature, Allen Ashley has been published in dozens of books and magazines in the UK, USA, Canada and Spain and has now passed his first century of short story publications. Allen is a highly respected author equally adept at novels, short stories, poetry and lyrics. He is also well known for a wealth of critical commentary and non-fiction articles and, more recently, as an acclaimed and award winning editor.
Allen has run successful writing workshops in Newham and Tower Hamlets libraries. In October 2005 he gave two readings at the Norwich Fringe Festival. In November 2005 he was the special guest of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. In May 2006 he ran a writing workshop in Derby as part of the very first "Alt. Fiction Day". On 2nd June 2006 he was the Guest of Honour at The British Fantasy Society (BFS) Open Night at The Devereux Arms, London WC2. On 7th July 2006 he compered the annual BFS "Showcase" evening, also at The Devereux.. At Fantasycon 2006 he moderated a panel on "Independent Versus Mainstream Editing" and was also thrilled to receive the BFS Best Anthology award as editor of "The Elastic Book Of Numbers". At Fantasycon 2007 he moderated a panel entitled "The Small Press - Building and Maintaining an Audience".
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