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Ghostwriting by Eric Brown

Ghostwriting
Ghostwriting

Over the course of a career spanning twenty five years, Eric Brown has written just a handful of horror and ghost stories – and all of them are collected here. They range from the gentle, psychological chiller "The House" to the more overtly fantastical horror of "Li Ketsuwan", from the contemporary science fiction of "The Memory of Joy" to the almost-mainstream of "The Man Who Never Read Novels". What they have in common is a concern for character and gripping story-telling. Ghostwriting is Eric Brown at his humane and compelling best.

contents:

Introduction
The Man Who Never Read Novels
Beauregard
Li Ketsuwan
Ghostwriting
Taipusan
The Memory of Joy
The Disciples of Apollo
The House

Published: 12 Mar 2012

"Irrespective of genre limitations Brown is a terrific storyteller as the present collection effectively proves... All in all an excellent collection of entertaining and well written dark fiction."
Hellnotes

"SF infused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility"
Paul McAuley

"He is a masterful storyteller"
Strange Horizons

"British writing with a deft, understated touch: wonderful"
New Scientist

"Eric Brown has an enviable talent for writing stories which are the essence of modern science fiction and yet show a passionate concern for the human predicament and human values"
Bob Shaw

"Eric Brown joins the ranks of Graham Joyce, Christopher Priest and Robert Holdstock as a master fabulist"
Paul di Filippo

Eric Brown

Eric Brown began writing when he was fifteen, while living in Australia, and sold his first short story to Interzone in 1986. He has won the British Science Fiction Award twice for his short stories, has published over forty books, and his work has been translated into sixteen languages. His latest books include the SF novels The Serene Invasion, Satan's Reach, and the crime novel Murder by the Book. He writes a regular science fiction review column for the Guardian newspaper and lives near Dunbar, East Lothian.

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The Spacetime Pit Plus Two Microcosms: Forty-Two stories The Fall of Tartarus Deep Future Rites of Passage Salvage Parallax View Blue Shifting infinity plus: quintet The Time-Lapsed Man and other stories Penumbra The Death of Cassandra Quebec The Time-Lapsed Man Approaching Omega Meridian Days The Angels of Life and Death infinities A Writer

the infinity plus shuffle:

Meridian Days Liberty Spin: tales of scientifiction A Restless Wind The Sculptor Pilots of the Purple Twilight Beautiful Intelligence Hallucinating Strange Mammals The Fall of Tartarus Jurassic and the Great Tree