New Short Story Collection: Fantastical

 

I’ve stuck a new short storycollection up on Kindle and POD. This was shortly after I received the coverfrom Vincent Sammy, who has again done an excellent job. The picture is from ashort story called Marie and the Witchfinder, and he nailed it.

Included in this collection are thethree Mason’s Rats stories because though these can be bought as a bookletthrough Kindle it is too small for Amazon to do a print version. Also included –another that appeared on Tim Miller’s Love, Death and Robots on Netflix – is BadTravelling. Along with that are two others set in the same world.

 

Introduction:

I’m known for science fiction andthat work ends up as a book or in some story collection. But as over the yearsI scrabbled around to find my opening I also wrote fantasy and other stuff thatdoesn’t comfortably take a label. These stories have been mouldering on my harddrive for years and I thought it time to scrub them up and put them out there. Itconcerned me that some might be a bit duff. Publish them anyway, cried thereaders, either out of genuine interest or eager to see me fall flat on myface. Some stories were duff, but I have rewritten them into functionality, Ithink – there are a few here about which I have my doubts. The one about atwenty-something wannabe artist running away with elves still makes me cringe. Ialso said I would write waffly introduction to each. Do more waffle, thereaders cried, so I did. 

Enjoy. . .

 

Neal Asher 20/04/23