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We Are Now - Flash Fiction Collection
Four weeks worth of Flash Fiction from three fantastic authors.
"We Are Now" is an inspiring collection of Flash Fiction, featuring a mix of stand-alone pieces and stories containing recurring characters, places and themes.
With many of its stories set in the future "We Are Now" has a science fiction feel yet covers many genres and has at its heart humanity. In total the 69 pieces show that we are all human regardless of technology, time or place.
Includes:
- Sean Craven's "Helping Henry" series: Light science fiction which follows bio-sculptor Henry Cleary as both his work and life evolves.
- Neil Vogler's four part action collection "Tripler": A new disease is causing those infected to "triple" into three people and become raging psychopaths but is it a disease or a cult?
- P.T. Dilloway's "Last Dance": An emotional and romantic piece in which a soldier returning from the front lines is given the chance for one last dance.
"We Are Now" is an inspiring collection of Flash Fiction, featuring a mix of stand-alone pieces and stories containing recurring characters, places and themes.
With many of its stories set in the future "We Are Now" has a science fiction feel yet covers many genres and has at its heart humanity. In total the 69 pieces show that we are all human regardless of technology, time or place.
Includes:
- Sean Craven's "Helping Henry" series: Light science fiction which follows bio-sculptor Henry Cleary as both his work and life evolves.
- Neil Vogler's four part action collection "Tripler": A new disease is causing those infected to "triple" into three people and become raging psychopaths but is it a disease or a cult?
- P.T. Dilloway's "Last Dance": An emotional and romantic piece in which a soldier returning from the front lines is given the chance for one last dance.
200 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 29, 2012
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About the author
Sean Craven
9 books1 followerSean has led what he calls a stereotypical writer’s life. A freakishly precocious child raised in the San Francisco Bay Area hippy-era bohemian demi-monde by drunks, he was beaten and alienated in violent inner city schools. But his grandmother’s position as head children’s librarian gave him full and unlimited access to the full collection of the Richmond Public Library, including atrocity and sex-education photos, from the age of five on. Compulsively creative from the beginning, he didn’t receive any artistic training until his mid-twenties, when he studied classical draftsmanship under Maurice Lapp. Since then, he’s been a student of everything from botanical illustration to storyboarding to bass guitar.
A manual labourer since age thirteen, in his late thirties a back injury took him out of the work force. Since then, he’s been creatively productive in forms and media ranging from animation scripts to performance to gallery art, and this work has appeared everywhere from underground magazines to paleontological databases to the BBC.
He lives in Berkeley, California with his beloved spouse and dogs, in a neighbourhood the news used to refer to as ‘Homicide Central.’
A friend once said, “Sean puts off all these tough guy vibes but he’s really a big marshmallow who just wants people to like each other and be polite.” Well, it’s hard to argue. That’s pretty much how it is.
A manual labourer since age thirteen, in his late thirties a back injury took him out of the work force. Since then, he’s been creatively productive in forms and media ranging from animation scripts to performance to gallery art, and this work has appeared everywhere from underground magazines to paleontological databases to the BBC.
He lives in Berkeley, California with his beloved spouse and dogs, in a neighbourhood the news used to refer to as ‘Homicide Central.’
A friend once said, “Sean puts off all these tough guy vibes but he’s really a big marshmallow who just wants people to like each other and be polite.” Well, it’s hard to argue. That’s pretty much how it is.
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February 7, 2013
This is a collection of short stories from three very different writers for the most part, though the common link would be for a predilection to genre fiction, and mostly science fiction at that. Each writer has just over twenty stories to their credit, though many of them are serialized, especially Neil Vogler's, while Sean Craven's are one serialized story entirely. That leaves PT Dilloway, working the one-and-done format.
Vogler's material is the strongest, at least in the outset. The "Tripler" series is a standout, though it flags the less he knows where it's actually going. Vogler is a concept writer but he isn't always as good writing a story to go with the concept as he's good at simply writing engaging stories.
Dilloway has two modes: hackneyed and fairly genius. He borrows most of his concepts from established properties, from "Yeoman" (which is based off Star Trek and the character Janice Rand, and could very easily be construed as an alternate version of Futurama's Zapp Brannigan and Kif) to "Bait and Switch" (basically a version of an origin for the Transformers, but with charming wit), though "11/22" (based on JFK) is his best, and that's a topic Stephen King recently broached.
If I read the collection again, it'll be to take more time to appreciate Craven's "Henry" series, which suffers the most from the decision to intertwine each contributor's stories. Although Craven has no real hook from story to story to keep each one individually interesting (other than the weird science he explains in the extras), as a whole it's the most ambitious work of the collection and deserves greater scrutiny.
Vogler's material is the strongest, at least in the outset. The "Tripler" series is a standout, though it flags the less he knows where it's actually going. Vogler is a concept writer but he isn't always as good writing a story to go with the concept as he's good at simply writing engaging stories.
Dilloway has two modes: hackneyed and fairly genius. He borrows most of his concepts from established properties, from "Yeoman" (which is based off Star Trek and the character Janice Rand, and could very easily be construed as an alternate version of Futurama's Zapp Brannigan and Kif) to "Bait and Switch" (basically a version of an origin for the Transformers, but with charming wit), though "11/22" (based on JFK) is his best, and that's a topic Stephen King recently broached.
If I read the collection again, it'll be to take more time to appreciate Craven's "Henry" series, which suffers the most from the decision to intertwine each contributor's stories. Although Craven has no real hook from story to story to keep each one individually interesting (other than the weird science he explains in the extras), as a whole it's the most ambitious work of the collection and deserves greater scrutiny.
January 16, 2013
I like to hear about new digital publishing projects, and December House intrigued me with their flash fiction month. During November, the innovative new publisher posted new flash fiction stories from three up and coming authors. These were available to read for free for the duration of the month (I know, free literature can't be bad, eh?). Come December, the stories were gathered into an ebook collection: We Are Now.
In general, the stories have a sci-fi feel, whether it's Vogler's astonishing 'Tripler' series, Craven's ongoing biological sci-fi series, or P.T. Dilloway's characters who are swept up in a time tsunami ('We Are Now'). The stories have in common, an impressive originality, and were a fantastic change from what I normally read.
While I'd be the first to admit I'm not a hard core sci-fi fan, I like to be an open reader. My preference was for Vogler's writing, which demonstrates great skill in storytelling. My enjoyment of his writing is not surprising though, considering I first encountered Neil when accepting submissions for Writer Bites. He stood out then as someone to watch, and my opinion has been reinforced by this collection.
Read the full review here: http://www.katejwilson.com/2012/12/bo...
In general, the stories have a sci-fi feel, whether it's Vogler's astonishing 'Tripler' series, Craven's ongoing biological sci-fi series, or P.T. Dilloway's characters who are swept up in a time tsunami ('We Are Now'). The stories have in common, an impressive originality, and were a fantastic change from what I normally read.
While I'd be the first to admit I'm not a hard core sci-fi fan, I like to be an open reader. My preference was for Vogler's writing, which demonstrates great skill in storytelling. My enjoyment of his writing is not surprising though, considering I first encountered Neil when accepting submissions for Writer Bites. He stood out then as someone to watch, and my opinion has been reinforced by this collection.
Read the full review here: http://www.katejwilson.com/2012/12/bo...
March 23, 2013
I think it's mostly awesome, but that Dilloway guy really brings the thing down. Yeesh, he's just terrible.
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