Collections
This is a list of some of the Collections in which I have been published. Additional information is available for some of the books by clicking on the image.
Paralax View, with Keith Brooke, Immanion Press, 2007
This is a reprint of our joint collection first published in 2000. It drops the two solo stories from that edition and replaces them with an original novella, “In Transit”: Abbott is a xeno-psychologist, sent into a war-zone to escort back to Earth the first ever captured member of the deadly enemy, the alien Kryte. When they crash-land on the fortress world of St Jerome’s, the Kryte prisoner turns the tables and takes Abbott into terrible custody. What follows is a terrifying journey across a hellish landscape towards a finale that might change the destiny of the Kryte, and humanity, for ever.
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Threshold Shift, Golden Gryphon, 2006
This collection features two stories which won the BSFA: “The Children of Winter” and “Hunting the Slarque.” The first is a tale of a hopeless love affair between aliens on a remote ice-bound world in the far future. In the second, Hunter is resurrected from death by the owner of an extraterrestrial zoo and sent to the dying world of Tartarus in search of the creature that killed him, the Slarque.Three stories are set in the Kéthani universe. The Kéthani are aliens who arrive on present-day Earth and offer immortality, creating moral and ethical dilemmas for the humans who chose to accept – or reject – the alien
gift. “Thursday ’s Child” is the story of parents whose daughter is dying; one wants the Kéthani to save their daughter, while the other is convinced, on religious grounds, that such restoration is wrong.For a list of contents, click the image.
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The Fall of Tartarus, Gollancz, 2005 In myth Tartarus was the lowest region of hell. So low, it was said, that an anvil dropped from heaven, having taken nine days and nights to reach Earth, would take a further nine days and nights to reach Tartarus. But in reality things were very different… These are the stories of the people who are leaving Tartarus, those have decided to stay and those who are arriving on the planet for the apocalypse.To read more about the writing of Tartarus, click the image.
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Deep Future, Cosmos Books, 2001 A collection of stories published by Cosmos Books in the States. Deep Future contains some of my favourite later stories, first published in such magazines as Interzone, SF Age and Spectrum SF.
To read Keith Brooke’s introduction, a list of the contents, and my short introductory notes on each story, click the image.
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Parallax View, Sarob Press, 2000
A collection of six stories written with Keith Brooke, and a solo tale from each of us – plus cover and interior artwork by Dominic Harman.
To read Stephen Baxter’s introduction, a list of contents, and a discussion between me and Keith, click the image.
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Blue Shifting, Pan Macmillan, 1995
My second collection of stories, reprinted from the anthologies Zenith 2, Other Edens 3, and the magazines Interzone, and Strange Plasma 1. Two pieces, “Song of Summer” and the novella “Blue Shifting”, are original to the collection.
For a list of contents, click the image.
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The Time-Lapsed Man and other stories, Pan Macmillan, 1990
My first book, my first collection, is of course dear to me. It contains “The Time-Lapsed Man”, which might be my best short story, six other tales, and the novella “The Inheritors of Earth”, which is original to the collection, as is “Pithecanthropus Blues”.
I wrote these stories, among others, over a period of three years after returning to England from India. The book contains all my early work first published in Interzone.
For a list of contents, scroll to bottom of page.
The Drunken Dragon hardback edition of this book is available from: Replay Books, 19 Eves Croft, Bartley Green, Birmingham, B32 3QL