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David Rix

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in The United Kingdom

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http://www.davidjrix.co.uk/

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eibonvale

Genre

Slipstream, Horror, Speculative Fiction

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Machen Sarban Pratchett
Nina Allan
Clive Barker

Member Since

March 2012

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David Rix is an author, composer, editor, artist and publisher active in the area of Slipstream, Speculative Fiction and Horror – not to mention hints of absurdism, miserablism, naturism and pissed-offism. Contemporary classical music, the seashore, urban underground, railways, rocks and canals. His published books are What the Giants were Saying, the chapbook Brown is the New Black and the novella/story collection Feather, which was shortlisted for the Edge Hill prize. In addition, his works have appeared in various places, the most notable being many of the Strange Tales series of anthologies from Tartarus Press, Monster Book For Girls from Exaggerated Press, Creeping Crawlers from Shadow Publishing, and Marked to Die from Snuggly Books. ...more

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Feather - Free PDF Excerpt

I have just launched a free PDF here on Goodreads of the complete first novella in my collection Feather - entitled Yellow Eyes. This tells the story of a young Feather gworing up in the wilds in the shadow of an old nuclear powerstation with her borderline crazy father and it sets the scene for most of the other works. So now there is nothing to stop you meeting her for yourself!

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Published on August 15, 2012 04:43 • 179 views • Tags: excerpt, feather, pdf

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David Rix’s books

Average rating: 4.34 · 198 ratings · 43 reviews · 21 distinct works

	A Suite in Four Windows 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rustblind and Silverbright - A Slipstream Anthology of Railway Stories by David Rix (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Howard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) , Rosanne Rabinowitz (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feather: Tales of Isolation and Descent 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What the Giants Were Saying it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blind Swimmer - An Eibonvale Press Anthology by David Rix (Goodreads Author), Nina Allan (Contributor) , Andrew Coulthard (Contributor) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brown Is the New Black 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unpleasant Tales by Brendan Connell (Goodreads Author), David Rix (Goodreads Author) (Design) 4.16 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Smell of Telescopes by Rhys Hughes (Goodreads Author), David Rix (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.56 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Tales by Rosalie Parker (Editor), Les Maynard (Contributor) , Nina Allan (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marked to Die: A Tribute to Mark Samuels by Justin Isis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Valentine (Contributor) , Quentin S. Crisp (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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David Rix and 1 other person liked Rhys's review of In Watermelon Sugar: "The third book of Brautigan's I have read is certainly the strangest so far. This is a wonderful novel that is unlike almost any other work of fiction I have ever read. It is a very gentle, whimsical and idealistic (possibly) post-apocalyptic utop..." Read more of this review »
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“in the days when the world begins to bleach and shrivel, and the sun is blotched with death. Socialist and Individualist, they'll all be a little dirt lodged deep in the granite wrinkles of the globe's countenance.”
― Clark Ashton Smith

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